free and open source software movement
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The free and open source software movement is a global social and technological initiative that promotes software whose source code is openly available for anyone to use, modify, and distribute, emphasizing user freedom, collaboration, and community-driven development.
All labels observed (1)
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| free and open source software movement canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6122805 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: free and open source software movement Context triple: [Mark Surman, movement, free and open source software movement]
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A.
free software movement
The free software movement is a social and political campaign that advocates for users’ freedom to run, study, modify, and share software, prominently championed by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation.
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B.
open-source movement
The open-source movement is a collaborative software development and licensing philosophy that promotes freely accessible, modifiable, and shareable source code, fostering community-driven innovation and transparency.
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C.
Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative is a non-profit organization that promotes and protects open source software by defining the Open Source Definition and approving licenses that comply with it.
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D.
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes computer users' freedom and defends the rights of all software users through advocacy, licensing, and development of free software.
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E.
Free Software, Free Society
Free Software, Free Society is a collection of essays by Richard Stallman that articulates the philosophy, ethics, and political implications of the free software movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: free and open source software movement Target entity description: The free and open source software movement is a global social and technological initiative that promotes software whose source code is openly available for anyone to use, modify, and distribute, emphasizing user freedom, collaboration, and community-driven development.
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A.
free software movement
The free software movement is a social and political campaign that advocates for users’ freedom to run, study, modify, and share software, prominently championed by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation.
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B.
open-source movement
The open-source movement is a collaborative software development and licensing philosophy that promotes freely accessible, modifiable, and shareable source code, fostering community-driven innovation and transparency.
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C.
Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative is a non-profit organization that promotes and protects open source software by defining the Open Source Definition and approving licenses that comply with it.
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D.
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes computer users' freedom and defends the rights of all software users through advocacy, licensing, and development of free software.
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E.
Free Software, Free Society
Free Software, Free Society is a collection of essays by Richard Stallman that articulates the philosophy, ethics, and political implications of the free software movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
social movement
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software development movement ⓘ technology movement ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
empower users over software vendors
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enable collaborative innovation ⓘ increase software transparency ⓘ reduce software vendor lock-in ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
bazaar development model
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copyleft ⓘ digital rights ⓘ open collaboration ⓘ open standards ⓘ peer production ⓘ software commons ⓘ |
| associatedWithLicense |
Apache License
NERFINISHED
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BSD licenses NERFINISHED ⓘ GNU General Public License NERFINISHED ⓘ GNU Lesser General Public License NERFINISHED ⓘ MIT License NERFINISHED ⓘ Mozilla Public License NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
collaborative software development
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community-driven development ⓘ meritocratic contribution models ⓘ peer review of code ⓘ transparency in software ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
FLOSS movement
NERFINISHED
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FOSS movement NERFINISHED ⓘ free and open-source software movement ⓘ |
| hasGlobalScope | true ⓘ |
| hasKeyValue |
community governance
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interoperability ⓘ security through transparency ⓘ sharing of knowledge ⓘ user autonomy ⓘ |
| includesSubmovement |
free software movement
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open source movement ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Unix culture
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academic software sharing traditions ⓘ hacker culture ⓘ |
| influences |
open access movement
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open data movement ⓘ open education movement ⓘ open hardware movement ⓘ |
| isBasedOn |
free software principles
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open source principles ⓘ |
| opposes |
digital rights management in software
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proprietary software restrictions ⓘ |
| promotes |
open access to source code
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software freedom ⓘ user rights to modify software ⓘ user rights to redistribute software ⓘ user rights to run software for any purpose ⓘ user rights to study software ⓘ |
| relatedToOrganization |
Apache Software Foundation
NERFINISHED
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Electronic Frontier Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ Free Software Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ Linux Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ Open Source Initiative NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsDevelopmentModel |
distributed version control
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issue tracking and bug reporting by users ⓘ public code repositories ⓘ |
| usesLicenseType |
copyleft licenses
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permissive open source licenses ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: free and open source software movement Description of subject: The free and open source software movement is a global social and technological initiative that promotes software whose source code is openly available for anyone to use, modify, and distribute, emphasizing user freedom, collaboration, and community-driven development.
Referenced by (1)
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