Older Version Newer Version

GerdIsenberg GerdIsenberg Jun 14, 2016

[[toc]]
**[[Home]] * [[Organizations]] * Free Software Foundation**

The **Free Software Foundation** (FSF), incorporated in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts|Massachusetts]], is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_corporation|non-profit corporation]] founded by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman|Richard Stallman]] on October 04, 1985 <ref>[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation|Free Software Foundation from Wikipedia]]</ref> , to support the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_movement|free software movement]]. The FSF holds the copyrights on various pieces and development tools of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU|GNU]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system|operating system]].

=GNU= 
**GNU** refers to an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system|operating system]] developed by the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project|GNU Project]], announced on September 27, 1983, by Stallman at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] <ref>[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project|GNU Project from Wikipedia]]</ref> . GNU is a [[Recursion|recursive]] acronym for “GNU's Not [[Unix]]!” <ref>[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU|GNU from Wikipedidia]]</ref> .
[[image:heckert_gnu.small.png link="http://www.gnu.org/"]]
[[#GPL]]
=License= 
The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License|GNU General Public License (GPL)]] and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License|GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)]] were written for GNU, but are also used by many unrelated projects, also various [[Open Source Engines|open source chess engines]].

[[#GPLEngines]]
=GPL Chess Engines= 
To expand this list, create a new engine page with the [[Guidance for Creating New Pages#Tags|tag]] "[[https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/tag/view/gplengines|gplengines]]", which are subsets of [[Open Source Engines]] with the tag "[[https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/tag/view/opensourceengines|opensourceengines]]".
> [[include component="pageList" hideInternal="true" tag="gplengines" limit="400" ]]

=Forum Posts= 
==2005 ...==
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23369|GPL guideline]] by [[Norman Schmidt]], [[CCC]], August 29, 2008
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23433|GPL and taking idea's]] by [[Ed Schroder|Ed Schröder]], [[CCC]], September 01, 2008
==2010 ...==
* [[http://www.open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=385|GPL discussion, sense and nonsense]] by [[Ed Schroder|Rebel]], [[Computer Chess Forums|OpenChess Forum]], July 06, 2010
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37823|GPL / GNU Licence enforcement]] by [[Fabien Letouzey]], [[CCC]], January 27, 2011
* [[http://www.open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1587|GPL Question]] by [[Franklin Titus|kingliveson]], [[Computer Chess Forums|OpenChess Forum]], September 02, 2011
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40685|Official GPL webpage available?]] by [[Frank Quisinsky]], [[CCC]], October 09, 2011
==2015 ...==
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60480| GPL license question]] by [[Ferdinand Mosca]], [[CCC]], June 14, 2016

=External Links= 
==FSF== 
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation|Free Software Foundation from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_movement|Free software movement from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://www.fsf.org/|Free Software Foundation — working together for free software]]
* [[https://my.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom?referrer=4052|Support the Free Software Foundation - Free Software Foundation]]

==GNU== 
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU|GNU from Wikipedidia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project|GNU Project from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Savannah|GNU Savannah from Wikipedia]]
> [[http://savannah.gnu.org/|GNU Savannah]]
* [[http://www.gnu.org/|The GNU Operating System]]
* [[http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/chess.html|GNU Chess — GNU Project — Free Software Foundation (FSF)]]
* [[http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/|XBoard - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)]]

==GPL== 
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License|GNU General Public License from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt|GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE]] Version 3, 29 June 2007
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License|GNU Lesser General Public License from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html|GNU Lesser General Public License - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)]]
[[#GCC]]
==GCC== 
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection|GNU Compiler Collection from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://gcc.gnu.org/|GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection]]
* [[http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.4.5/gcc/index.html|Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)]]
* [[http://www.mingw.org/|MinGW - Minimalist GNU]] for [[Windows]]
* [[http://developer.amd.com/cpu/gnu/Pages/default.aspx|GCC and GNU Tools for AMD Platforms]] from [[http://developer.amd.com/pages/default.aspx|AMD Developer Central]]
[[#GLIBC]]
==GLIBC== 
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_C_library|GNU C Library from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/|GNU C Library - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)]]
* [[http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/|GLIBC, the GNU C Library]]

=References= 
<references />
=What links here?= 
[[include component="backlinks" page="Free Software Foundation" limit="200"]]
**[[Organizations|Up one level]]**