• The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985. The organisation supports the...
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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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    Free software, libre software, libreware sometimes 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under an open-source license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the...
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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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    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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  • 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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    The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or GFDL) is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for...
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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 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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    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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  • as an overview of and topical guide to free software and the free software movement: Free softwaresoftware which can be run, studied, examined, modified...
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  • list of free and open-source software packages (FOSS), computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. Software that fits...
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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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  • practices. In 1983 Richard Stallman launched the free software movement and founded the Free Software Foundation to promote the movement and to publish its...
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    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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    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 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • The Xiph.Org Foundation is a nonprofit organization that produces free multimedia formats and software tools. It focuses on the Ogg family of formats...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Free Software Foundation. Archived from the original on 2014-05-22. Retrieved 2014-05-24. "GNU make manual: pattern rules". Free Software Foundation....
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