The goals are to provide a search engine for free software, and to provide a cross-reference for users to check if a package has been verified as being free software.

Join us in calling for a Web that respects our freedom by being compatible with free software and stand up against nonfree JavaScript. The Free Software Directory is a collaborative catalog of computer …

Oct 8, 2025 · In 1985, Mr. Stallman created the FSF to support his ideas about “free software”. In this case, “free” didn’t mean that the software didn’t cost money. Instead, it meant that users should be …

Jan 1, 2024 · You may have paid money to get copies of a free program, or you may have obtained copies at no charge. But regardless of how you got your copies, you always have the freedom to …

Aug 23, 2025 · Specifically, the four essential freedoms: the freedom to run the software, to study and change it, to redistribute copies, and to improve it and release those improvements to the public. This …

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The free software movement views free software as a moral imperative: that proprietary software should be rejected, and that only free software should be developed and taught in order to make computing …