LUISA MURILLOJULIETT LAGOSKARINA CHERE

DefinitionFree Software is a matter of user’s

freedom to run, copy, distribute, study,

change and improve the software.

To run the program for any purpose.

To study on how that program works and adapt it to

your needs

To redistribute copies so you can help your

neighbor.

To improve the program and release your

improvements to the public so that the whole

community benefits.

Kind of freedom for the users:

- Cheaper than commercially

marketed products.

- Created by skillful and

talented people. - Highly reliable.

- Help you become more

flexible.

- Vulnerable to malicious users.- Might not be as user-friendly as

commercial versions.

- Don’t come with extensive support.

ADVANTAGES

DISADVANTAGES

FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION was founded as a non-profit corporation supporting free software

 development. 

 Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 

It continued existing GNU projects such as the sale of manuals and tapes, and employed developers of the free software system. 

The FSF is also the steward of several free software licenses, meaning it publishes them and has the ability to make revisions as needed.

The FSF holds the copyrights on many pieces of the GNU system, such as GNU Compiler Collection.  It has the authority to enforce the copyleft requirements of the GNU General Public License (GPL) when copyright infringement occurs on that software..  From 1991 until 2001, GPL enforcement was done informally, usually by Stallman himself, often with assistance from FSF's lawyer, Eben Moglen.

 From 1991 until 2001, GPL enforcement was done informally, usually by Stallman himself, often with assistance from FSF's lawyer, Eben Moglen.

In late 2001, Bradley M. Kuhn (then Executive Director), with the assistance of Moglen, David Turner, and Peter T. Brown, formalized these efforts into FSF's GPL Compliance Labs. 

In March 2003, SCO filed suit against IBM alleging that IBM's contributions to various free software, including FSF's GNU, violated SCO's rights.  

During 2003 and 2004, FSF put substantial advocacy effort into responding to the lawsuit and quelling its negative impact on the adoption and promotion of free software.  From 2003 to 2005, FSF held legal seminars to explain the GPL and the surrounding law.[19] Usually taught by Bradley M. Kuhn and Daniel Ravicher, these seminars offered CLE credit and were the first effort to give formal legal education on the GPL.  In 2007, the FSF published the third version of the GNU General Public License after significant outside input.

In December 2008, FSF filed a lawsuit against Cisco for using GPL-licensed components shipped with Linksys products. Cisco was notified of the licensing issue in 2003 but Cisco repeatedly disregarded its obligations under the GPL.

In May 2009, FSF dropped the lawsuit when Cisco agreed to make a monetary donation to the FSF and appoint a Free Software Director to conduct continuous reviews of the company's license compliance practices

RICHARD STALLMAN

March 16th, 1953 – USA, New York (Manhattan)

RICHARD STALLMAN1971 1982 - 1983

He becomes a hacker of the Laboratory of

artificial intelligence.

doubled the efforts of Symbolics

programmers to prevent them

from acquiring a monopoly on the computers in the

lab.

announced in several Usenet newsgroups the start of the GNU project, which

aimed to create a completely free

operating system.

He promoted the creation of a free encyclopaedia,

NUPedia, considered as a

direct antecedent of Wikipedia.

Linus Torvalds released the Linux kernel under the terms of the GPL,

completing a complete GNU

operating system, the GNU / Linux

operating system.

The publication of the GNU Manifesto, in which Stallman

states his intentions and motivations to create a free

alternative to the Unix operating

system, which he called GNU

September 27th, 1983

1985 1991 1999

GNU Project

Launched to create a complete operating system which is Free Software.

Main licenses: The GNU General Public License (GPL) and the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL, originally called GNU Library General Public License).

It consists of numerous smaller sub-projects maintained by volunteers or businesses or combinations of the two.

Its name is derived from the recursive acronym "GNU's Not Unix.“

 The name acknowledges that GNU learned from Unix's technical design, but also importantly notes that they are unrelated. Unlike Unix, GNU is Free Software.