The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985, to support 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,Massachusetts, United States, 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[citation needed] and its employees and volunteers have mostly worked on legal and structural issues for the free software movement and the free software community[which?].

Consistent with its goals, the FSF aims to use only free software on its own computers.

As our society grows more dependent on computers, the software we run is of critical importance to securing the future of a free society. Free software is about having control over the technology we use in our homes, schools and businesses, where computers work for our individual and communal benefit, not for proprietary software companies or governments who might seek to restrict and monitor us. The Free Software Foundation exclusively uses free software to perform its work.

The Free Software Foundation is working to secure freedom for computer users by promoting the development and use of free (as in freedom) software and documentation—particularly the GNU operating system—and by campaigning against threats to computer user freedom like Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) and software patents.

Location: United States of America

Website: https://www.fsf.org



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