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Addison-Wesley
Addison-Wesley is a publisher of textbooks and computer literature.
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Alternative terms for free software
Alternative terms for free software, such as open source, FOSS, and FLOSS, have been a controversial issue among free and open-source software users from the late 1990s onwards.
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Apache License
The Apache License is a permissive free software license written by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
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Apache Software Foundation
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is an American non-profit corporation (classified as 501(c)(3) in the United States) to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server.
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Benjamin Mako Hill
Benjamin Mako Hill (born December 2, 1980) is a free software activist, hacker, and author.
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Bruce Perens
Bruce Perens (born Oct 24, 1957) is an American computer programmer and advocate in the free software movement.
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BSD licenses
BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and redistribution of covered software.
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Cognate
In linguistics, cognates are words that have a common etymological origin.
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Copyleft
Copyleft (a play on the word copyright) is the practice of offering people the right to freely distribute copies and modified versions of a work with the stipulation that the same rights be preserved in derivative works down the line.
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Cygnus Solutions
Cygnus Solutions, originally Cygnus Support, was founded in 1989 by John Gilmore, Michael Tiemann and David Henkel-Wallace to provide commercial support for free software.
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Debian
Debian is a Unix-like computer operating system that is composed entirely of free software, and packaged by a group of individuals participating in the Debian Project.
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Duke University
Duke University is a private, non-profit, research university located in Durham, North Carolina.
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Edgar David Villanueva
Dr Edgar David Villanueva Núñez is a politician and congressman in the Republic of Peru.
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Eric S. Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, author of the widely cited 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar and other works, and open-source software advocate.
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FLOSS Manuals
The FLOSS Manuals (FM) is a non-profit foundation founded in 2006 by Adam Hyde and based in the Netherlands.
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Free and open-source software
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that can be classified as both free software and open-source software.
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Free software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.
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Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, which promotes the universal freedom to study, distribute, create, and modify computer software, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License.
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Free Software Foundation Europe
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) was founded in 2001 to support all aspects of the free software movement in Europe.
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Free Software Foundation of India
The Free Software Foundation of India (FSFI) Is an Indian sister organisation to the US-based Free Software Foundation.
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Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu
Free Software Foundation Tamil Nadu (or FSFTN in short) is a nonprofit organisation formed in 2008 as a part of Free Software Movement of India (FSMI).
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Free Software Magazine
Free Software Magazine (also known as FSM and originally titled The Open Voice) is a website which produces a (generally bi-monthly) mostly free-content e-zine about free software.
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Free Software Movement of India
Free Software Movement of India (FSMI) is a national coalition of various regional and sectoral free software movements operating in different parts of India.
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Free Software Movement of Karnataka
Free Software Movement Karnataka (FSMK) is a non-profit organization working for spreading free software and its ideals.
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Free-culture movement
The free-culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative works in the form of free content or open content by using the Internet and other forms of media.
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Gift economy
A gift economy, gift culture, or gift exchange is a mode of exchange where valuables are not traded or sold, but rather given without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards.
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GNU Free Documentation License
The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU Project.
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GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL) is a widely used free software license, which guarantees end users the freedom to run, study, share and modify the software.
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GNU Manifesto
The GNU Manifesto was written by Richard Stallman and published in March 1985 in Dr. Dobb's Journal of Software Tools as an explanation and definition of the goals of the GNU Project, and to call for participation and support developing GNU, a free software computer operating system.
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GNU Project
The GNU Project is a free-software, mass-collaboration project, first announced on September 27, 1983 by Richard Stallman at MIT.
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GNU/Linux naming controversy
The GNU/Linux naming controversy is a dispute between members of the free software community and open-source software community over whether to refer to computer operating systems that use a combination of GNU software and the Linux kernel as "GNU/Linux" or "Linux".
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Gratis versus libre
The English adjective free is commonly used in one of two meanings: "for free" (gratis) and "with little or no restriction" (libre).
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Hacker culture
The hacker culture is a subculture of individuals who enjoy the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming limitations of software systems to achieve novel and clever outcomes.
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History of free and open-source software
In the 1950s and 1960s, computer operating software and compilers were delivered as a part of hardware purchases without separate fees.
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InfoWorld
InfoWorld (formerly The Intelligent Machines Journal) is an information technology media business.
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Jupiter Broadcasting
Jupiter Broadcasting is a podcasting network formed by Chris Fisher and Bryan Lunduke in May 2008 following the initial success of The Linux Action Show!.
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Karl Fogel
Karl Fogel is an author, software developer, Executive Director of copyright activist non-profit Question Copyright, and former board member of the Open Source Initiative where he served as the Board Treasurer.
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License compatibility
License compatibility is a legal framework that allows for pieces of software with different software licenses to be distributed together.
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License proliferation
License proliferation is the phenomenon of an abundance of already existing and the continued creation of new software licenses for software and software packages in the FOSS ecosystem.
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Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator, and historically, the principal developer of the Linux kernel, which became the kernel for operating systems such as the Linux operating systems, Android, and Chrome OS.
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Linux adoption
Linux adoption is the adoption of Linux computer operating systems (OS) by households, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and governments.
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Linux kernel
The Linux kernel is an open-source monolithic Unix-like computer operating system kernel.
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List of proprietary software for Linux
Linux is an open-source kernel and usually comes bundled with free and open source software; however, proprietary software for Linux does exist and is available to end-users.
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Malware
Malware (a portmanteau for malicious software) is any software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server or computer network.
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MIT License
The MIT License is a permissive free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Mozilla Foundation
The Mozilla Foundation (stylized as moz://a) is a non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project.
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Netscape
Netscape is a brand name associated with the development of the Netscape web browser.
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Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting open-source software.
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Open-source license
An open-source license is a type of license for computer software and other products that allows the source code, blueprint or design to be used, modified and/or shared under defined terms and conditions.
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Open-source software movement
The open-source software movement is a movement that supports the use of open-source licenses for some or all software, a part of the broader notion of open collaboration.
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Pearson Education
Pearson Education (see also Pearson PLC) is a British-owned education publishing and assessment service to schools and corporations, as well as directly to students.
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Peru
Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.
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Phoronix
Phoronix is a technology website that offers insights regarding the development of the Linux kernel, product reviews, interviews, and news regarding free and open-source software by monitoring the Linux kernel mailing list or interviews.
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Programming style
Programming style is a set of rules or guidelines used when writing the source code for a computer program.
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Proprietary software
Proprietary software is non-free computer software for which the software's publisher or another person retains intellectual property rights—usually copyright of the source code, but sometimes patent rights.
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Public speaking
Public speaking (also called oratory or oration) is the process or act of performing a speech to a live audience.
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Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often known by his initials, rms—is an American free software movement activist and programmer.
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Robert L. Glass
Robert L. (Bob) Glass (born 1932) is an American software engineer and writer, known for his works on software engineering, especially on the measuring of the quality of software design and his studies of the state of the art of software engineering research.
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Social movement
A social movement is a type of group action.
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Software Freedom Conservancy
Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) is an organization that provides a non-profit home and infrastructure support, including legal services, for free/open source software projects.
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Software patent
A software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, libraries, user interface, or algorithm.
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Swecha
Swecha is a non-profit organization formerly called as Free Software Foundation Andhra Pradesh (or FSF-AP in short) later changed name to Swecha which is also the first Telugu Operating System released in year 2005, Swecha is a part of Free Software Movement of India (FSMI).
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The Free Software Definition
The Free Software Definition written by Richard Stallman and published by Free Software Foundation (FSF), defines free software as being software that ensures that the end users have freedom in using, studying, sharing and modifying that software.
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User (computing)
A user is a person who utilizes a computer or network service.
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Venezuela
Venezuela, officially denominated Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (República Bolivariana de Venezuela),Previously, the official name was Estado de Venezuela (1830–1856), República de Venezuela (1856–1864), Estados Unidos de Venezuela (1864–1953), and again República de Venezuela (1953–1999).
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Viral license
Viral license is an alternative name for copyleft licenses, especially the GPL, that allows derivative works only when permissions are preserved in modified versions of the work.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_movement