Free Software Foundation
non-profit organization for support for the free software movement / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit corporation founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, a movement which tries to promote the universal freedom to distribute and modify computer software without restriction. The FSF was started in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States of America.
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Abbreviation | FSF |
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Motto | Free Software, Free Society |
Formation | 1985-10-04 |
Type | NGO and Non profit |
Legal status | Foundation |
Purpose | Educational |
Headquarters | Boston, MA |
Region served | Worldwide |
Membership | Private individuals and corporate patrons |
Affiliations | Software Freedom Law Center |
Staff | 12 |
Website | https://www.fsf.org/ |
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From its founding (when it started) until the 1990s, FSF's funds were mostly used to employ software developers to write free software for the GNU Project. Since the mid-1990s, the FSF's employees and volunteers have mostly worked on legal and structural issues for the free software movement and the free software community.