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What (who) is Richard Stallman - definition
 (10).jpg?width=200 "Stallman giving a speech on \"Free Software and Your Freedom\" at the ''biennale du design'' of Saint-Étienne (2008)")
![Stallman at [[Swatantra 2014]], a conference organized by [[ICFOSS]] in Kerala, India](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard M Stallman Swathanthra 2014 kerala.jpg?width=200 "Stallman at [[Swatantra 2014]], a conference organized by [[ICFOSS]] in Kerala, India")
![Cover picture for [[O'Reilly Media]]'s 2002 book ''[[Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard Matthew Stallman.jpeg?width=200 "Cover picture for [[O'Reilly Media]]'s 2002 book ''[[Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software]]''")
![Stallman using his [[Lemote]] machine at [[Indian Institute of Technology Madras]], Chennai](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard Matthew Stallman working on his Lemote Machine.JPG?width=200 "Stallman using his [[Lemote]] machine at [[Indian Institute of Technology Madras]], Chennai")
![Calcutta, India]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard Stallman 00.jpg?width=200 "Calcutta, India]]")
![Monastir]], [[Tunisia]], 2012)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard Stallman by gisleh 01.jpg?width=200 "Monastir]], [[Tunisia]], 2012)")
Wikipedia
Richard Matthew Stallman (; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to use, study, distribute, and modify that software. Software that ensures these freedoms is termed free software. Stallman launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in October 1985, developed the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and wrote the GNU General Public License.
Stallman launched the GNU Project in September 1983 to write a Unix-like computer operating system composed entirely of free software. With this, he also launched the free software movement. He has been the GNU project's lead architect and organizer, and developed a number of pieces of widely used GNU software including, among others, the GNU Compiler Collection, GNU Debugger, and GNU Emacs text editor.
Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, which uses the principles of copyright law to preserve the right to use, modify, and distribute free software. He is the main author of free software licenses which describe those terms, most notably the GNU General Public License (GPL), the most widely used free software license.
In 1989, he co-founded the League for Programming Freedom. Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time advocating for free software, as well as campaigning against software patents, digital rights management (which he refers to as digital restrictions management, calling the more common term misleading), and other legal and technical systems which he sees as taking away users' freedoms. This has included software license agreements, non-disclosure agreements, activation keys, dongles, copy restriction, proprietary formats, and binary executables without source code.
In September 2019, Stallman resigned as president of the FSF and left his visiting scientist role at MIT after making controversial comments about the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal. Stallman remained head of the GNU Project, and in 2021 returned to the FSF board of directors.
