Free Software Foundation: Difference between revisions
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An USA based open source organisation with branches in a number of other countries, organised as charities in some jurisdictions, and as companies in jurisdictions where for profit charities are not allowed. Originally founded to develop an open source [[UNIX]] clone (later known as [[HURD]]), in its early years the company collected donations and spent them on paying full time developers, however in later years they have discontinued that practice for the most part, with donations being spent on organisational, legal and propaganda expenses. This has left most of their software collection unmaintained, with the exception of the most popular projects that are well known enough to be maintained by third party volunteers. | An USA based open source organisation with branches in a number of other countries, organised as charities in some jurisdictions, and as companies in jurisdictions where for profit charities are not allowed. Originally founded to develop an open source [[UNIX]] clone (later known as [[HURD]]), in its early years the company collected donations and spent them on paying full time developers, however in later years they have discontinued that practice for the most part, with donations being spent on organisational, legal and propaganda expenses. This has left most of their software collection unmaintained, with the exception of the most popular projects that are well known enough to be maintained by third party volunteers. | ||
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Most of the software the FSF holds out gets the '''GNU''' moniker, but that is name they took from [[Gnuplot]]. | Most of the software the FSF holds out gets the '''GNU''' moniker, but that is name they took from [[Gnuplot]]. | ||
* [[Bash]] | * [[Bash]] | ||
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* [[GCC]] | * [[GCC]] | ||
* [[GNU awk]] | * [[GNU awk]] | ||
* | * GNU Coreutils | ||
* [[GNU Common Lisp]] | * [[GNU Common Lisp]] | ||
* [[GNU diffutils]] (Mostly dormant) | * [[GNU diffutils]] (Mostly dormant) | ||
* GNU [[ | * GNU [[gettext]] | ||
* [[GNU Make]] | * [[GNU Make]] | ||
* [[GNU Pascal]] (Dormant) | * [[GNU Pascal]] (Dormant) | ||
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* [[MIT/GNU Scheme]] | * [[MIT/GNU Scheme]] | ||
==Licences== | |||
Open source licences written by or at the behest of the FSF. | Open source licences written by or at the behest of the FSF. | ||
* [[GNU General Public Licence]] | * [[GNU General Public Licence]] | ||
Revision as of 22:23, 29 January 2017
An USA based open source organisation with branches in a number of other countries, organised as charities in some jurisdictions, and as companies in jurisdictions where for profit charities are not allowed. Originally founded to develop an open source UNIX clone (later known as HURD), in its early years the company collected donations and spent them on paying full time developers, however in later years they have discontinued that practice for the most part, with donations being spent on organisational, legal and propaganda expenses. This has left most of their software collection unmaintained, with the exception of the most popular projects that are well known enough to be maintained by third party volunteers.
Projects
Most of the software the FSF holds out gets the GNU moniker, but that is name they took from Gnuplot.
- Bash
- CLISP
- GCC
- GNU awk
- GNU Coreutils
- GNU Common Lisp
- GNU diffutils (Mostly dormant)
- GNU gettext
- GNU Make
- GNU Pascal (Dormant)
- GNU shell utilities (Dormant)
- GNU Smalltalk
- GNU Sather (Dormant)
- MIT/GNU Scheme
Licences
Open source licences written by or at the behest of the FSF.
Known personnel
- Richard Stallman (Founder)
- Peter Gerwinski (FSF Germany)