The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985, to support the free software movement...
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Free software, libre software, or libreware is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well...
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The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is an organization that supports free software and all aspects of the free software movement in Europe, with...
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Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified...
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The Free Software Definition written by Richard Stallman and published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), defines free software as being software that...
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Stallman later established the Free Software Foundation in 1985 to support the movement. The philosophy of the Free Software Movement is based on promoting...
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The Apache Software Foundation (/əˈpætʃi/ ə-PATCH-ee; ASF) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United...
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of open-source licenses. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) maintains a list of what it considers free. FSF's free software and OSI's open-source licenses...
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The Free Software Foundation of India (FSFI) is the Indian sister organisation to the US-based Free Software Foundation. It was founded in Thiruvananthapuram...
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Comparison of Linux distributions (redirect from List of Linux distributions endorsed by the Free Software Foundation)
latest version, etc. Linux distributions endorsed by the Free Software Foundation are marked 100% Free under the System distribution commitment column. Debian...
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A free-software license is a notice that grants the recipient of a piece of software extensive rights to modify and redistribute that software. These actions...
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awarded the 2001 Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software for changing the license to fix this incompatibility. Free and open-source...
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The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF)...
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Free content, libre content, libre information, or free information is any kind of mind work, such as a work of art, a book, a software program, or any...
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Free Software Foundation anti-Windows campaigns are the events targeted against a line of Microsoft Windows operating systems. They are paralleling the...
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as an overview of and topical guide to free software and the free software movement: Free software – software which can be run, studied, examined, modified...
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needed] the existing term "free software" and founded the Free Software Foundation to promote the concept. The Free Software Definition was published in...
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) grants two annual awards. Since 1998, FSF has granted the award for Advancement of Free Software and since 2005, also...
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redistributions. Free software that depends on proprietary software is considered "trapped" by the Free Software Foundation. This includes software written only...
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GNU General Public License (redirect from Software propagation)
the Free Software Foundation (FSF), for the GNU Project. The license grants the recipients of a computer program the rights of the Free Software Definition...
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Freeware (redirect from Gratis software)
an unlimited period of time. In contrast to what the Free Software Foundation calls free software, the author of freeware usually restricts the rights...
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from the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which were only widely available later. Under Perens' definition, open source is a broad software license that...
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A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections,...
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Group. Despite the similarities in name, OSF was unrelated to the Free Software Foundation (FSF, also based in Cambridge, Massachusetts), or the Open Source...
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essential software freedoms. Richard Stallman's Free Software Definition, adopted by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), defines free software as a matter...
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open-source software Free software, defined by the Free Software Foundation, is software which may be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed ("free as...
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Free Software Foundation Latin America (FSFLA) is the Latin American sister organisation of the Free Software Foundation. It is the fourth sister organisation...
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Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) is a set of guidelines that the Debian Project uses to determine whether a software license is a free software license...
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Transforming Text", GNU make, Free Software Foundation, 2013 "8.5 The foreach Function", GNU make, Free Software Foundation, 2013 "GCC 3.4 Release Series...
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Open software licenses Open licenses Various Licenses and Comments about Them – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation Licenses - Definition of Free Cultural...
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