Free Software Foundation

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The Free Software Foundation (FSF), incorporated in Massachusetts, is a non-profit corporation founded by Richard Stallman on October 04, 1985 ¹ , to support the free software movement. The FSF holds the copyrights on various pieces and development tools of the GNU operating system.

GNU

GNU refers to an operating system developed by the GNU Project, announced on September 27, 1983, by Stallman at MIT ² . GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not Unix!” ³ .

License

The GNU General Public License (GPL) and the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) were written for GNU, but are also used by many unrelated projects, also various open source chess engines.

GPL Chess Engines

• GPL Chess Engines

Forum Posts

2005 ...

• GPL guideline by Norman Schmidt, CCC, August 29, 2008
• GPL and taking idea's by Ed Schröder, CCC, September 01, 2008

2010 ...

• GPL discussion, sense and nonsense by Rebel, OpenChess Forum, July 06, 2010
• GPL / GNU Licence enforcement by Fabien Letouzey, CCC, January 27, 2011
• GPL Question by kingliveson, OpenChess Forum, September 02, 2011
• Official GPL webpage available? by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, October 09, 2011

2015 ...

• GPL license question by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, June 14, 2016

External Links

FSF

• Free Software Foundation from Wikipedia
• Free software movement from Wikipedia
• Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
• Support the Free Software Foundation - Free Software Foundation

GNU

• GNU from Wikipedidia
• GNU Project from Wikipedia
• GNU Savannah from Wikipedia

GNU Savannah

• The GNU Operating System
• GNU Chess — GNU Project — Free Software Foundation (FSF)
• XBoard - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

GPL

• GNU General Public License from Wikipedia
• GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007
• GNU Lesser General Public License from Wikipedia
• GNU Lesser General Public License - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

GCC

• GNU Compiler Collection from Wikipedia
• GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection
• Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
• MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows
• GCC and GNU Tools for AMD Platforms from AMD Developer Central

GLIBC

• GNU C Library from Wikipedia
• GNU C Library - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
• GLIBC, the GNU C Library

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