• 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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    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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    copyright. 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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    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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    users more control over their own hardware. The free software movement and the open-source software movement are online social movements behind widespread...
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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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  • 4, 1985. The organisation supports the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Richard Stallman launched the free software movement and founded the Free Software Foundation to promote the movement and to publish its own definition...
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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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  • "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 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • as free software, shareware, and public domain software. Open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet. The open-source software movement arose...
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    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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  • 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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    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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  • community. This and other developments such as the rise of the free software movement and community drew together a critically large population and encouraged...
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  • Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software (ISBN 0-596-00287-4) is a free book licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License...
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  • Free software movement, a movement to liberate users ability to run, study, modify, and redistribute software source code. Gay liberation, a movement...
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