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Free Software Foundation (FSF) – founded 1985; began as a development center for the GNU Project. It currently advocates for free software and against proprietary software and formats; and maintains and legally enforces the GNU General Public License. It also created the Free Software Definition.
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that grants users the right to use, modify, and distribute the software – modified or not – to everyone free of charge. FOSS is an inclusive umbrella term encompassing free software and open-source software .
The Association for Free Software (or AFFS) was a member organization, based in the United Kingdom, for the advancement of free software (sometimes also called "open-source software"). It was an associate organization of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE).
Free-software licenses that use "weak" copyleft include the GNU Lesser General Public License and the Mozilla Public License. The GNU General Public License is an example of a license implementing strong copyleft. An even stronger copyleft license is the AGPL, which requires the publishing of the source code for software as a service use cases.
The source code (or compiled binaries in the form of object code) [1] of a computer program is protected by copyright law that vests the owner with the exclusive right to copy the code. The underlying ideas or algorithms are not protected by copyright law, but are often treated as a trade secret and concealed by such methods as non-disclosure ...
Software of unknown pedigree (SOUP) is software that was developed with a unknown process or methodology, or which has unknown or no safety-related properties. [1] In the medical device development standard IEC 62304, SOUP expands to software of unknown provenance, and in some contexts uncertain is used instead of unknown, but any combination of unknown/uncertain and provenance/pedigree refer ...
The Quality Samples Program (QSP) is a pilot program, started in 2000 and administered by the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), that utilizes Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funds to reimburse U.S. agricultural trade organizations for the cost of providing small samples of U.S. products to potential importers located in overseas emerging markets.
A National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a unique 10-digit identification number issued to health care providers in the United States by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The NPI has replaced the Unique Physician Identification Number (UPIN) as the required identifier for Medicare services, and is used by other payers ...