Free Software Foundation
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Abbreviation | FSF |
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Motto | Free Software, Free Society |
Formation | October 4, 1985[1] |
Teep | 501(c)(3) non-profit organisation |
Legal status | Foondation |
Purpose | Eddicational |
Heidquarters | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
Region served | Warldwide |
Membership | Private individuals an corporate patrons |
President | Richard Stallman |
Affiliations | Software Freedom Law Center |
Budget | $1,136,393 in FY 2014[2] |
Staff | 12[3] |
Wabsteid | www |
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organiaation foondit bi Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 tae support the free saftware muivement, which promotes the universal freedom tae study, distribute, create, an modify computer saftware,[4] wi the organisation's preference for saftware bein distributit unner copyleft ("share alik") terms,[5] such as wi its ain GNU General Public License.[6] The FSF wis incorporatit in Massachusetts, USA, whaur it is an aa based.[7]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Corporations Division Entity Summary for ID Number: 042888848". Secretary of Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ↑ "2014 Free Software Foundation IRS Form 990" (PDF). Retrieved 24 November 2015.
- ↑ "Staff of the Free Software Foundation". Retrieved 24 Januar 2015.
- ↑ "Free software is a matter of liberty, not price". Free Software Foundation. Retrieved 22 Julie 2012.
- ↑ "Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU Licenses". Free Software Foundation. Retrieved 22 Julie 2012.
- ↑ "What Is Copyleft?". Free Software Foundation. Retrieved 22 Julie 2012.
- ↑ "FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION, INC. Summary Screen". The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Corporations Division. Retrieved 6 Apryle 2009.
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- Free an open-soorce saftware organisations
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- Intellectual property activism
- Organisations based in Boston
- Non-profit technology
- Organisations established in 1985
- Science an technology think tanks
- 1985 establishments in the Unitit States