Free Foundation for celebrated href=”https://www.fsf.org/events/fsf40″> fortieth anniversary . In 1985, a year after the founding of the GNU project, Richard Startlman established organization freeee Software Foundation . The organization was created with the aim of protecting from companies with a dubious reputation, convicted of assigning code and trying to sell some of the first tools of the GNU project, developed by the Stalman and its comrades. Three years after the foundation of the Stalman, the first version of the GPL license was prepared, which determined the legal framework for the model of the distribution of free software.
September 17, 2019, Stalman, the president of the Foundation SPO and Jeffrey Knaut was elected to his place in 2020, which was replaced by Jan Kellling. Answering the question about plans, the new president mentioned the strengthening of the PP Fund with new threats of users’ freedom and attracting free supporters to the movement of free people.
at the Zoya Koyman event dedicated to the fortieth anniversary, the Executive Director of the SPO Foundation – Librephone, aimed at providing complete freedom calculations in mobile devices. Details about the initiative are not yet given, only that it will convey to users of mobile devices basic concepts of freedom software, such as the right to launch, copy, study, study and improve software. The project oversees Rob Savoy ( rob savoye ) Free software, creator of a free Gnash Flash player, participant in the development of GCC, Debian, GDB, Dejagnu, Newlib, Cygwin, One Laptop Per Child and Expect.