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The **Free Software Foundation** (FSF), incorporated in [|Massachusetts], is a [|non-profit corporation] founded by [|Richard Stallman] on October 04, 1985, to support the [|free software movement]. The FSF holds the copyrights on various pieces and development tools of the [|GNU] [|operating system].

=GNU=  =License= The [|GNU General Public License (GPL)] and the [|GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)] were written for GNU, but are also used by many unrelated projects, also various open source chess engines.
 * GNU** refers to an [|operating system] developed by the [|GNU Project], announced on September 27, 1983, by Stallman at MIT . GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not Unix!”.

 =GPL Chess Engines= To expand this list, create a new engine page with the tag "[|gplengines]", which are subsets of Open Source Engines with the tag "[|opensourceengines]". > include component="pageList" hideInternal="true" tag="gplengines" limit="400"

=Forum Posts=

2005 ...

 * [|GPL guideline] by Norman Schmidt, CCC, August 29, 2008
 * [|GPL and taking idea's] by Ed Schröder, CCC, September 01, 2008

2010 ...

 * [|GPL discussion, sense and nonsense] by Rebel, OpenChess Forum, July 06, 2010
 * [|GPL / GNU Licence enforcement] by Fabien Letouzey, CCC, January 27, 2011
 * [|GPL Question] by kingliveson, OpenChess Forum, September 02, 2011
 * [|Official GPL webpage available?] by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, October 09, 2011

2015 ...

 * [| GPL license question] by Ferdinand 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 Savannah]
 * [|GNU from Wikipedidia]
 * [|GNU Project from Wikipedia]
 * [|GNU Savannah from Wikipedia]
 * [|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] for Windows
 * [|GCC and GNU Tools for AMD Platforms] from [|AMD 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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