Free software on wikipedia

[Ciaran O'Riordan]

I find Wikipedia very useful, so for people who don't yet use or contribute
to Wikipedia, here are some pages on free software that might be useful or
that maybe you can improve:

First is the "free software front door" of English Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Free_software

Articles with self-explanatory titles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_community
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_project

About the GNU OS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU

About the GNU+Linux OS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

About GNU+Linux distros:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution

About "open source", "FLOSS", "Software libre", etc:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_terms_for_free_software

About free software licences, the different standards, etc:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_license

And some detailed articles on people and organisations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation_Europe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen

And there's too many more to mention, but here're a few more anyway:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_European_Patent_Convention
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_the_patentability_of_computer-implemented_inventions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Patent

And most free software projects have an article about them too.

Free software portals for other languages also exist, such as:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Freie_Software
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portail:Logiciels_libres



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