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The free and open source software (FOSS) movement — from Stallman's GNU Manifesto (1983) through the open source schism (1998) to modern distributed development, licensing ecosystems, and governance m

GNU General Public License version 3 license MIT License license BSD License license SSPL and Business Source License license GNU Lesser General Public License license Creative Commons Licenses license GNU General Public License version 2 license Apache License 2.0 license GNU Affero General Public License license Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution source Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software source Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software source Revolution OS source Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman writing Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution writing The Magic Cauldron writing Homesteading the Noosphere writing Producing Open Source Software writing Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure writing The GNU Manifesto writing The Cathedral and the Bazaar writing The Success of Open Source writing Contributor License Agreements practice Patch-Based Development practice Code Review in FOSS practice Mentorship Programs (GSoC and Outreachy) practice Bug Triage and Tracking practice Release Management practice Maintainer Sustainability Crisis concept The Four Freedoms concept Commons-Based Peer Production concept Linus's Law concept Open Core Business Model concept Release Early, Release Often concept Software Freedom vs. Open Source concept The Open Source Definition concept The Bazaar Model concept BDFL Governance concept Copyleft concept Forking as Governance concept GNU and the Free Software Era (1983–1997) era Hacker Culture Prehistory (1960s–1983) era Mainstream Adoption and Corporate Embrace (2005–2014) era The Open Source Schism and Dot-Com Era (1998–2004) era Modern FOSS and the Sustainability Crisis (2015–Present) era Tim O'Reilly person Ian Murdock person Jim Zemlin person Karl Fogel person Linus Torvalds person Guido van Rossum person Christine Peterson person Larry Wall person Mitchell Baker person Eric S. Raymond person Bruce Perens person Nadia Eghbal (Asparouhova) person Richard Stallman person Debian Project organization Open Source Initiative organization Free Software Foundation organization Mozilla Foundation organization Software Freedom Conservancy organization GitHub organization Linux Foundation organization FOSDEM organization Apache Software Foundation organization SourceForge organization Linus Torvalds Releases Linux Kernel (1991) event Foresight Institute Strategy Meeting — 'Open Source' Coined (1998) event Microsoft Acquires GitHub (2018) event Netscape Announces Navigator Source Release (1998) event Open Source Initiative Founded (1998) event GPL Version 3 Released (2007) event Git Released by Linus Torvalds (2005) event xz Utils Backdoor Discovered (CVE-2024-3094) event Apache Software Foundation Founded (1999) event GitHub Launches (2008) event