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TheFree Software Foundation (FSF), incorporated inMassachusetts, is anon-profit corporation founded byRichard Stallman on October 04, 1985^[1] , to support thefree software movement. The FSF holds the copyrights on various pieces and development tools of theGNUoperating system.

GNU

GNU refers to anoperating system developed by theGNU Project, announced on September 27, 1983, by Stallman atMIT^[2] . GNU is arecursive acronym for “GNU's NotUnix!”^[3] .

License

TheGNU General Public License (GPL) and theGNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) were written for GNU, but are also used by many unrelated projects, also variousopen source chess engines.

GPL Chess Engines

• GPL Chess Engines

Forum Posts

2005 ...

• GPL guideline byNorman Schmidt,CCC, August 29, 2008
• GPL and taking idea's byEd Schröder,CCC, September 01, 2008

2010 ...

• GPL discussion, sense and nonsense byRebel,OpenChess Forum, July 06, 2010
• GPL / GNU Licence enforcement byFabien Letouzey,CCC, January 27, 2011
• GPL Question bykingliveson,OpenChess Forum, September 02, 2011
• Official GPL webpage available? byFrank Quisinsky,CCC, October 09, 2011

2015 ...

• GPL license question byFerdinand Mosca,CCC, June 14, 2016

External Links

FSF

• Free Software Foundation from Wikipedia
• Free software movement from Wikipedia
• Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
• Support the Free Software Foundation - Free Software Foundation

GNU

• GNU from Wikipedidia
• GNU Project from Wikipedia
• GNU Savannah from Wikipedia

GNU Savannah

• The GNU Operating System
• GNU Chess — GNU Project — Free Software Foundation (FSF)
• XBoard - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

GPL

• GNU General Public License from Wikipedia
• GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007
• GNU Lesser General Public License from Wikipedia
• GNU Lesser General Public License - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

GCC

• GNU Compiler Collection from Wikipedia
• GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection
• Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
• MinGW - Minimalist GNU forWindows
• GCC and GNU Tools for AMD Platforms fromAMD Developer Central

GLIBC

• GNU C Library from Wikipedia
• GNU C Library - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
• GLIBC, the GNU C Library

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