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Free Software, Free Society
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Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman is a collection of writings (mostly essays, with occasional articles, interviews and speech transcripts) by Richard Stallman. It introduces the subject of history and development of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, explains authors philosophical position on Free Software movement, deals with the topics of software ethics, copyright and patent laws, as well as business practices in application to computer software. The author proposes Free software licenses (mostly GPL) as a solution to social issues created by proprietary software and described in essays.
The introduction is written by Lawrence Lessig, professor at Harvard Law School.
The book is available online allowing verbatim (without making changes) copying and distribution of the whole collection, while each essay is licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-ND 4.0 International License.
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original title: Free Software, Free Society ː Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
language: English
date of publication: 2002
genre: essay
www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf
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Free Software, Free Society
language: English
date of publication: 2002
number of pages: 224
ISBN-13:978-1-882114-98-6ISBN-10:1-882114-98-1Public
nothing hereFree Software Free Society 3rd Edition
language: English
date of publication: 2015
ISBN-13:978-0-9831592-5-4ISBN-10:0-9831592-5-4Public
nothing hereFree Software Free Society, 2nd Edition
language: English
date of publication: 2010
ISBN-13:978-0-9831592-0-9ISBN-10:0-9831592-0-3Public
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