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Dummy text by the generic name Free Software, was born with the advent of Unix in the 1970s. This operating system was delivered with its source code so user mostly in universities and research laboratories could handle maintenance themselves. Since technical assistance was lacking, communities of computer specialists were organized in order to maintain, improve and distribute the operating system. In 1983, Richard Stallman of MIT founded the Free Software Foundation, an organization campaigning for the use of free software. This project, called GNU (Gnu is Not Unix) quickly took shape, and the GPL, General Public License, providing a legal framework for the usage and distribution of free software, was written.

While the term "free" implies that source code is distributed with the program, it in no way means that the application itself is necessary free (has no cost). The GPL license simply prevents a distributor from taking over the work carried out by a community of developers and including usage restrictions. Today, the GPL license governs the large majority of programs running under Linux, including the operating system itself.