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FSF Recommendations On Library Licensing
FSF may refer to: Organizations * Free Software Foundation, an American non-profit organization with a mission to promote computer user freedom * Federal Security Force (Pakistan) * Federación de Sindicatos Ferroviarios, a defunct Argentine trade union * Financial Stability Forum, a defunct international organization of financial regulators * Flight Safety Foundation, an international independent, non-profit organization for research, education, and communications in the field of civil aviation flight safety * Föreningen Sveriges Filmfotografer, the Swedish Society of Cinematographers * Progressive Party (Iceland), Progressive Party, an Icelandic political party (in Icelandic: ''Framsóknarflokkurinn'') * Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Fernsehen, German television rating content board. Arts and entertainment * Folsom Street Fair, a street fair in San Francisco, California, United States * Further Seems Forever, a rock band * Fugitive Strike Force, a 2006 television series * ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985. The organisation supports the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License. The FSF was incorporated in Boston where it is also based. From its founding until the mid-1990s, FSF's funds were mostly used to employ software developers to write free software for the GNU Project and its employees and volunteers have mostly worked on legal and structural issues for the free software movement and the free software community. Consistent with its goals, the FSF aims to use only free software on its own computers. The FSF holds the copyrights on many pieces of the GNU system, such as GNU Compiler Collection. As the holder of these copyrights, it has authority to enforce the copyleft requirements of the GNU General Public License (GPL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
