The free software movement is a social movement with the goal of obtaining and guaranteeing certain freedoms for software users, namely the freedoms to...
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issues for the free software movement and the free software community[which?]. Consistent with its goals, the FSF aims to use only free software on its own...
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Free-software licenses and open-source licenses are used by many software packages today. The free software movement and the open-source software movement...
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Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to...
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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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Free Software Movement of India (FSMI) is a national coalition of various regional and sectoral free software movements operating in different parts of...
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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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The open-source-software movement is a social movement that supports the use of open-source licenses for some or all software, as part of the broader...
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culture". The free-culture movement, with its ethos of free exchange of ideas, is aligned with the free and open-source-software movement, as well as other...
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for open-source software, see free software movement and Open Source Initiative. However, nearly all software meeting the Free Software Definition also...
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"Relationship between the Free Software movement and Open Source movement", Free Software Foundation, Inc "What is Free Software", Free Software Foundation, Inc...
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The history of free and open-source software begins at the advent of computer software in the early half of the 20th century. In the 1950s and 1960s,...
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Free and open-source software portal Comparison of free and open-source software licenses Free software Free-software license Free software movement List...
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Alternative terms for free software, such as open source, FOSS, and FLOSS, have been a controversial issue among free and open-source software users from the...
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Free content, libre content, libre information, or free information is any kind of creative work, such as a work of art, a book, a software program, or...
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The Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. (FSFE) is an organization that supports free software and all aspects of the free software movement in Europe...
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Richard Stallman (category Free software people)
by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that...
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1970s public domain software ecosystem, the social and political free software movement (since 1980) and the open source movement (since the 1990s). These...
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FOSSMeet 2024 Free and open-source software portal Free software in India Free software movement "Free as in Freedom: The Story of Free Software in Kerala...
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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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Gratis versus libre (redirect from Free as in free beer)
cover them, especially in the free software and open source communities, as well as the broader free culture movement. For example, they are used to...
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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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Free Software Movement Karnataka (FSMK) is a non-profit organization working for spreading free software and its ideals. The movement is inspired by software...
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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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and the Free Software Foundation, explains the author's philosophical position on the Free Software movement, deals with the topics of software ethics...
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guavac, which began some time before November 1995. Since then, the free software movement developed other Java compilers, most notably the GNU Compiler for...
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Delhi/NCR Free Software Movement of Karnataka (FSMK) Free Software Movement of Maharashtra (FSMM) Free Software Movement of Rajasthan Free Software Foundation...
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Open-source license (redirect from List of OSI-approved software licences)
States began to treat software as a literary work covered by copyright law. Richard Stallman founded the free software movement in response to the rise...
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licenses are incompatible with each other, hampering the goals of the free software movement. Translation issues, ambiguity in licensing terms, and incompatibility...
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Open source (redirect from Open software development)
people in the free software movement who were critical of the political agenda and moral philosophy implied in the term "free software" and sought to...
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