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Stallman invented the concept of copyleft, "Change it and redistribute it but don't strip off this freedom," and wrote (with lawyers) the GNU General Public License, which implements copyleft.

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Oct 10, 2025 · Richard Stallman will be speaking about the free software movement and your freedom, and the progress and growing dangers in today's digital world of software.

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It benefits the business but harms everyone else. So let's forbid it, except for small cases where a full-time employee would simply not make sense. * We call them 'useds' rather than 'users' …

Oct 23, 2013 · Richard Stallman will give a talk in Munich, Germany, Tuesday, Oct 21, Free/Libre software and freedom in the digital society. The talk is in English, from 18:00 to 20:00, in the …

An imaginative painting of Richard Stallman, by Jin Wicked. Another drawing of me, by Banlu Kemiyatorn. A nice photo of me, apparently taken in yellow light (that shirt was actually black …

Return to Richard Stallman's home page. Please send comments on these web pages to rms [AT] gnu [DOT] org. Copyright (C) 2002-2024 Richard Stallman Verbatim copying and distribution …

Richard Stallman These are past live streams of talks by Richard Stallman, in reverse chronological order.