What is Free Software Foundation?
{{infobox organization | name = Free Software Foundation | image = Free_Software_Foundation_logo_and_wordmark.svg | image_border = | size = 300px | caption = | map = | msize = | mcaption = | abbreviation = FSF | motto = Free Software, Free Society | formation = 1985-10-04 | type = [[Non-governmental organization|NGO]] and [[Non profit]] | status = Foundation | purpose = Educational | headquarters = Boston, MA | location = | region_served = Worldwide | membership = Private individuals and corporate patrons | language = | leader_title = President | leader_name = <!-- No longer, since he resigned in 2019: [[Richard Stallman]] --> | main_organ = | parent organization = | affiliations = [[Software Freedom Law Center]] | num_staff = 12 | num_volunteers = | budget = | website = [https://www.fsf.org https://www.fsf.org/] | remarks = }} The '''Free Software Foundation''' ('''FSF''') is a [[non-profit corporation]] founded by [[Richard Stallman]] on 4 October 1985 to support the [[free software movement]], a movement which tries to promote the universal freedom to distribute and modify [[computer software]] without restriction. The FSF was started in the [[Massachusetts|Commonwealth of Massachusetts]], [[United States of America]]. From its founding (when it started) until the 1990s, FSF's funds were mostly used to employ [[programmer|software developers]] to write [[free software]] for the [[GNU Project]]. Since the mid-1990s, the FSF's employees and volunteers have mostly worked on legal and structural issues for the free software movement and the [[free software community]]. == GPL enforcement == The FSF holds the copyrights on many important pieces of the [[GNU]] system, such as the [[GNU Compiler Collection|GCC]]. As a copyright holder, it has the power to enforce the [[GNU General Public License]] (GPL) when [[copyright infringement]] occurs on that software. While other [[copyright]] holders of other software systems used the GPL as their license, FSF was the only organization to regularly assert its