Free Software Foundation

Definitions

1. The nonprofit organization founded by Richard Stallman to promote software freedom and support the GNU project. The Free Software Foundation has been highly influential in shaping copyleft licensing and the philosophical language of software freedom.

   In plain English: The nonprofit group best known for promoting software freedom and supporting the GNU project.

   Example: "The license discussion kept returning to Free Software Foundation definitions of what user freedom should mean."

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