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...

Free software, libre software, or libreware is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well...

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is an organization that supports free software and all aspects of the free software movement in Europe, with...

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...

The Free Software Definition written by Richard Stallman and published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), defines free software as being software that...

The Apache Software Foundation (/əˈpætʃi/ ə-PATCH-ee; ASF) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United...

Stallman later established the Free Software Foundation in 1985 to support the movement. The philosophy of the Free Software Movement is based on promoting...

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...

The Free Software Foundation of India (FSFI) is the Indian sister organisation to the US-based Free Software Foundation. It was founded in Thiruvananthapuram...

latest version, etc. Linux distributions endorsed by the Free Software Foundation are marked 100% Free under the System distribution commitment column. Debian...

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...

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...

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...

Free Software Foundation anti-Windows campaigns are the events targeted against a line of Microsoft Windows operating systems. They are paralleling the...

The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF)...

from the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which were only widely available later. Under Perens' definition, open source is a broad software license that...

needed] the existing term "free software" and founded the Free Software Foundation to promote the concept. The Free Software Definition was published in...

redistributions. Free software that depends on proprietary software is considered "trapped" by the Free Software Foundation. This includes software written only...

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...

an unlimited period of time. In contrast to what the Free Software Foundation calls free software, the author of freeware usually restricts the rights...

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...

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...

Free Software Foundation Latin America (FSFLA) is the Latin American sister organisation of the Free Software Foundation. It is the fourth sister organisation...

essential software freedoms. Richard Stallman's Free Software Definition, adopted by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), defines free software as a matter...

Group. Despite the similarities in name, OSF was unrelated to the Free Software Foundation (FSF, also based in Cambridge, Massachusetts), or the Open Source...

open-source software Free software, defined by the Free Software Foundation, is software which may be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed ("free as...

Xiph.Org Foundation is a nonprofit organization that produces free multimedia formats and software tools. It focuses on the Ogg family of formats, the...

A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections,...

Open software licenses Open licenses Various Licenses and Comments about Them – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation Licenses - Definition of Free Cultural...

etc. of free and open-source software (FOSS) as a whole, or of one or more specific FOSS projects. For projects that have their own foundation or are part...