FreeBSD Foundation
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The FreeBSD Foundation is a United States-based 501(c)(3) registered non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the FreeBSD Project
, its development and its community. Funding comes from individual and corporate donations, and is used to sponsor developers for specific activities, purchase hardware and network infrastructure and provide travel grants to developer summits. The FreeBSD Foundation is able to provide legal representation to sign contracts and agreements on behalf of the FreeBSD Project, and also holds the FreeBSD trademark
and related domain names.
The FreeBSD Foundation received initial 501(c)(3) charity status on December 7th, 2000, and the Foundation was formally announced to the world on June 27th, 2001.
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant...
, its development and its community. Funding comes from individual and corporate donations, and is used to sponsor developers for specific activities, purchase hardware and network infrastructure and provide travel grants to developer summits. The FreeBSD Foundation is able to provide legal representation to sign contracts and agreements on behalf of the FreeBSD Project, and also holds the FreeBSD trademark
Trademark
A trademark, trade mark, or trade-mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify that the products or services to consumers with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source, and to distinguish its products or...
and related domain names.
The FreeBSD Foundation received initial 501(c)(3) charity status on December 7th, 2000, and the Foundation was formally announced to the world on June 27th, 2001.
FreeBSD Foundation Board of Directors
The current Board of Directors is as follows:- Justin T. Gibbs, President.
- Robert N. M. Watson, Vice President.
- Deb Goodkin, Secretary and Treasurer.
- Sam LefflerSamuel J LefflerSamuel J Leffler is a computer scientist, known forhis extensive work on BSD, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in thepresent day. Among other projects, he created FlexFAX,libtiff, and theFreeBSD WirelessDevice Drivers....
, Director. - Hiroki Sato, Director
- Ed Maste, Director.
- Dru LavigneDru LavigneDru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, technical writer and director at FreeBSD Foundation.She has been using FreeBSD since 1996, has authored several BSD books, and spent over 10 years developing training materials and providing training on the administration of FreeBSD...
, Director. - Erwin Lansing, Director.