The Debian Project
is a
worldwide group of volunteers who endeavor to produce an operating system
distribution that is composed entirely of free software. The principle product
of the project to date is the Debian GNU/Linux software distribution, which
includes the Linux operating system kernel, and thousands of prepackaged
applications. Various processor types are supported to one extent or another,
including Intel i386 and above, Alpha, ARM, Motorola 68k, MIPS, PowerPC, Sparc,
and UltraSparc.
Debian motivated the formation of Software In The Public Interest,
Inc.,
a New York-based non-profit organization. SPI is a non-profit
organization which was founded to help Debian and other similar organizations
develop and distribute open hardware and software. Among other things, SPI
provides a mechanism by which The Debian Project may accept contributions that
are tax deductable in the United States.
For more information about free software, see the Debian Social
Contract
and associated Debian Free Software Guidelines, or the
Debian What Does Free
Mean?
page.
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