Free Software Foundation
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Free Software Foundation
Abbreviation
FSF
Motto
Free Software, Free Society
Formation
1985-10-04
Extinction
n/a
Type
NGO and Non profit organization
Legal status
Foundation
Purpose/focus
Educational
Headquarters
Boston, MA
Region served
Worldwide
Membership
Private individuals and corporate patrons
President
Richard Stallman
Affiliations
Software Freedom Law Center
Staff
12
Website
http://www.fsf.org/
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 copyleft-based movement which aims to promote the universal freedom to distribute and modify computer software without restriction. The FSF is incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States of America.
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. 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.
Being consistent with its goals, only free software is used on all of the FSF's computers.[1]
