Software in the Public Interest

Template:Short description Template:Primary sources Template:Infobox organization Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization domiciled in New York State formed to help other organizations create and distribute free open-source software and open-source hardware. Anyone is eligible to apply for membership, and contributing membership is available to those who participate in the free software community.

SPI was originally created to allow the Debian Project to accept donations.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It now acts as a fiscal sponsor to many free and open source projects.

SPI has hosted Wikimedia Foundation board elections and audited the tally as a neutral third party from 2007 to 2011.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Associated projects

The 45 currently associated projects of SPI are:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

• 0 A.D.
• Adélie Linux
• ankur.org.in
• aptosid
• Arch Linux
• Arch Linux 32
• ArduPilot
• The Battle for Wesnoth
• Compile Farm
• Debian
• FFmpeg
• Fluxbox
• Gallery
• Ganeti
• Gentoo Linux<ref>Gentoo Linux becomes an SPI associated project

Apr 10, 2024</ref>

• GNUstep
• GNU TeXmacs
• Haskell.org
• Himmelblau Foundation<ref>[1] Himmelblau Foundation</ref>
• Libreboot
• LibreOffice
• MinGW
• MPI Forum
• NTPsec
• ns-3
• OFTC
• Open Bioinformatics Foundation
• Open MPI
• Open Voting Foundation
• OpenEmbedded
• OpenSAF
• OpenVAS
• OpenZFS
• PMIx
• POCO
• PostgreSQL
• Privoxy
• Rigs of Rods
• Rocket
• SproutCore
• Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
• systemd
• The Mana World
• translatewiki.net
• Tux4Kids
• X.Org
• YafaRay

See also

• List of free and open-source software organizations

External links

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