Portal:Free and open-source software

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software that is distributed in a manner that allows its users to run the software for any purpose, to redistribute copies of it, and to examine, study, and modify, the source code
. FOSS is also a loosely associated movement of multiple organizations, foundations, communities and individuals who share basic philosophical perspectives and collaborate practically, but might diverge in detail questions.

The historical precursor to this was the hobbyist and academic

lost freedom to users on the decline of the public domain ecosystem and the growth of a copyrighted proprietary software
ecosystem.

In response, as a hack of the copyright system, he created the GPL, a

Debian Free Software Guidelines, The Open Source Definition
, and more.

At the end of the 1990s, in the context of the

Open-Source movement (with Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, Tim O'Reilly and others) gave important impulses to FOSS with the achieved open sourcing of Netscape's browser as Firefox and Sun Microsystems' office suite, OpenOffice.org
.

The incorporation of
many more
.
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Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S
.

It had its inaugural release in 2003 as freeware for Windows. Dolphin was the first GameCube emulator that could successfully run commercial games. After troubled development in the first years, Dolphin became free and open-source software and subsequently gained support for Wii emulation. Soon after, the emulator was ported to Linux and macOS. As mobile hardware got more powerful over the years, running Dolphin on Android became a viable option.

Dolphin has been well received in the IT and video gaming media for its high compatibility, steady development progress, the number of available features, and the ability to play games with graphical improvements over the original platforms. (Full article...)
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Terminology

Although there was

free software before, in 1983 Richard Stallman launched the free software movement and founded the Free Software Foundation to promote the movement and to publish its own definition of free software. Others have published alternative definitions of free software, including the Debian Free Software Guidelines and the Berkeley Software Distribution-based operating system
communities.

In 1998, Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond began a campaign to market open-source software and founded the Open Source Initiative, which espoused different goals and a different philosophy from Stallman's.

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Operating systems

The following

free software licenses
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Mobile operating systems:


Desktop and server operating systems:


Linux systems focusing on free software:

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Topics
Impediments and challenges
Binary blobs
Adoption issues
Free software adoption cases
About licences
List of FSF-approved software licenses
Common licences
Permissive free software licences
History
...of free software · Free software movement · Timeline of free and open-source software
Groupings of software
Comparison of free software for audio · List of open-source video games
Naming issues
Naming conflict between Debian and Mozilla

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