Open Source for America (OSFA) is a consortium of various organizations established to advocate for and support the use of

free and open-source software Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that grants users the right to use, modify, and distribute the software modified or not to everyone free of charge. FOSS is an inclusive umbrella term encompassing free ...

in the U.S. Federal government. It consists of various open source foundations, and companies, including

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Mozilla Mozilla is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. The Mozilla community uses, develops, publishes and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting free software and open standards. The community is supported institution ...

, and Canonical. The organization consists of various committees and working groups, one of which is Mil-OSS.

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