On this day in 1983 the GNU project was announced. It was going to build a complete Unix-compatible operating system that was completely free software
GNU begat the Free Software Foundation. They've made several versions and variants of free software licenses that are commonly used.
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.en.html
Disclaimer: GNU and FSF have been enormously important historically for people's software freedom, and I want to recognize that. I have severe disagreements with the FSF.
Lars Wirzenius
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