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    Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization domiciled in New York State formed to help other organizations create...
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  • In social science and economics, public interest is "the welfare or well-being of the general public" and society. While it has earlier philosophical roots...
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    Debian (category 1993 software)
    non-free firmware in its installation media by default. On June 16, 1997, the Debian Project founded Software in the Public Interest, a nonprofit organization...
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    ] as chairman of the Debian Technical Committee. Garbee has served on the board of directors of Software in the Public Interest, the non-profit organization...
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    Tool (APT) is a free-software user interface that works with core libraries to handle the installation and removal of software on Debian and Debian-based...
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  • president of Software in the Public Interest in 1998 and 1999. Jackson received a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University in 1998. His PhD...
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  • Open Bioinformatics Foundation (category Free software project foundations)
    the foundation was created in 2005. In October 2012, the foundation began an association with Software in the Public Interest (SPI), a US-based non-profit...
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    Jenkins is an open source automation server. It helps automate the parts of software development related to building, testing, and deploying, facilitating...
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    0 A.D. (video game) (category Free software that uses SDL)
    The majority of the project's finances are managed by the Software in the Public Interest organization. There is no official release date set for the...
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    X.Org Foundation (category Free software project foundations based in the United States)
    SFLC) and in the same year it regained the status, after clearing up the issue. In 2016, the X.Org Foundation joined Software in the Public Interest (SPI)...
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    Open and Free Technology Community (category Free software culture and documents)
    free software community in any part of the world. OFTC is an associated project of Software in the Public Interest, a non-profit organization which was...
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  • license conforming to the DFSG into Debian and also extends Debian to be a better platform for this field of interest. The Debian Software Repositories contain...
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  • Project, Software in the Public Interest. 30 July 2016. Archived from the original on 7 October 2017. Retrieved 31 July 2016. Tangent, The Dark. "defcon...
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  • OpenVAS (category 2005 software)
    Slashdot. Greenbone Vulnerability Manager is a member project of Software in the Public Interest. There is a daily updated feed of Network Vulnerability Tests...
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    Elive (category Free software culture and documents)
    was established in early 2005 as a customized Knoppix Live DVD running the Enlightenment desktop. The first version to appear publicly was called Elive...
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    modified version of the Debian expert text installer, which has the ability to install only free software if the user chooses, while the live desktop image...
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  • deb is the format, as well as filename extension of the software package format for the Debian Linux distribution and its derivatives. Debian packages...
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    aptitude is a front end to APT, the Debian package manager. It displays a list of software packages and allows the user to interactively pick packages...
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  • operating system composed of software packages released as free and open-source software primarily under the GNU General Public License, developed by a group...
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    The GNU General Public Licenses (GNU GPL or simply GPL) are a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft licenses, that guarantee end users...
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  • free software. Amongst the earliest was Free Software Foundation's Free Software Definition, which then defined as the three freedoms of Free Software (Freedom...
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    MinGW (category Public-domain software)
    a free and open source software development environment to create Microsoft Windows applications. MinGW includes a port of the GNU Compiler Collection...
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    Privoxy (category Free software programmed in C)
    browser can use it. The software is hosted at SourceForge. Historically the Tor Project bundled Privoxy with Tor but this was discontinued in 2010 as they pushed...
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  • Philosophical Inquiry Society of the Plastics Industry, a U.S. trade association Software in the Public Interest Software Patent Institute, US St. Pascual...
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    Arch Linux (redirect from Pacman (software))
    regularly updating the individual pieces of software that it comprises. Arch Linux is intentionally minimal, and is meant to be configured by the user during...
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    distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative, public manner. Open-source...
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  • Debian Social Contract (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from July 2023)
    provide the basic principles for the Debian Free Software Guidelines that serve as the basis of the Open Source Definition. Debian believes the makers...
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  • Dpkg (category Software using the GNU General Public License)
    dpkg is the software at the base of the package management system in the free operating system Debian and its numerous derivatives. dpkg is used to install...
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    The MIT License is a permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s. As a permissive license...
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    Mobian (category Free mobile software)
    DebianOnMobile. DebianOnMobile maintains upstreamed parts. As software stack Mobian uses the Phosh (Phone shell) graphical system developed by Purism, which...
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