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)
firmware in its installation media by default. On June 16, 1997, the Debian Project founded the nonprofit organization Software in the Public Interest to continue...
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Bdale Garbee (section Free software)
] 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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List of Debian project leaders (redirect from Chris Lamb (software developer))
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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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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List of Tor onion services (section Software)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wajig (category Software using the GNU General Public License)
provides a balloon with a clear description of the function that the button provides. Free and open-source software portal PackageKit http://metadata.ftp-master...
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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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ArduPilot (category Software using the GNU General Public License)
integration for submarines. The project evolves under the umbrella of ArduPilot.org, a project within the Software in the Public Interest not-for-profit organisation...
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GNU variants (category Free software operating systems)
based upon the GNU operating system (the Hurd kernel, the GNU C library, system libraries and application software like GNU coreutils, bash, the Guix package...
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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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Ian Murdock (category Free software programmers)
(April 28, 1973 – December 28, 2015) was an American software engineer, known for being the founder of the Debian project and Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial...
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GNUstep (redirect from Amanda the panda)
GNUstep is a free software implementation of the Cocoa (formerly OpenStep) Objective-C frameworks, widget toolkit, and application development tools for...
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