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FOSS ''(Free and Open-source software) ''

Free software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapt for any other versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, not price.

Rights to be given to any user or developer:

Users can as well as individually or in cooperation with computer programmers, are free to do what they want with their copies of free software including making from them, without considering of how much is paid to obtain the program.FOSS software gives the user the ultimate control over the software and, subsequently, over their devices.

The right to study and modify a computer program entails that source code—the preferred format for making changes—be made available to users of that program. While this is often called 'access to source code' or 'public availability', the Free Software Foundation recommends against thinking in those terms, because it might give the impression that users have an obligation to give non-users a copy of the program.

Although the term free software had already been used loosely in the past, Richard Stallman is credited with tying it to the sense under discussion and starting the free-software movement in 1983, when he launched the GNU Project: a collaborative effort to create a freedom-respecting operating system, and to revive the spirit of cooperation once prevalent among hackers during the early days of computing.