The official definition of "open source software," as publi… - Richard Stallman

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The official definition of "open source software," as published by the Open Source Initiative, is very close to our definition of free software; however, it is a little looser in some respects, and they have accepted a few licenses that we consider unacceptably restrictive of the users.

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Richard Matthew Stallman (born 16 March 1953), often known as rms or RMS, is the founder of the Free Software movement, the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom. He also invented the concept of copyleft to protect the ideals of this movement, and enshrined this concept in the widely-used GPL (General Public License) for software.

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Birth Name: Richard Matthew Stallman

Alternative Names: Richard M. Stallman • R. Stallman • rms • St. IGNUcius • Chief GNUisance • RMS

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