The free software movement is a social movement with the goal of obtaining and guaranteeing certain freedoms for software users, namely the freedoms to...

Free software, libre software, libreware sometimes known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to...

users more control over their own hardware. The free software movement and the open-source software movement are online social movements behind widespread...

4, 1985. The organisation supports the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share...

Free Software Movement of India (FSMI) is a national coalition of various regional and sectoral free software movements operating in different parts of...

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...

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...

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

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...

for open-source software, see free software movement and Open Source Initiative. However, nearly all software meeting the Free Software Definition also...

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...

Richard Stallman launched the free software movement and founded the Free Software Foundation to promote the movement and to publish its own definition...

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

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...

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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"Relationship between the Free Software movement and Open Source movement", Free Software Foundation, Inc "What is Free Software", Free Software Foundation, Inc...

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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as free software, shareware, and public domain software. Open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet. The open-source software movement arose...

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...

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...

guavac, which began some time before November 1995. Since then, the free software movement developed other Java compilers, most notably the GNU Compiler for...

Delhi/NCR Free Software Movement of Karnataka (FSMK) Free Software Movement of Maharashtra (FSMM) Free Software Movement of Rajasthan Free Software Foundation...

License-free software is computer software that is not explicitly in the public domain, but the authors appear to intend free use, modification, distribution...

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...

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...

purposes. Commercial software can be proprietary software or free and open-source software. While software creation by programming is a time and labor-intensive...

1970s public domain software ecosystem, the social and political free software movement (since 1980) and the open source movement (since the 1990s). These...

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...