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.
Founded | June 16, 1997 |
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Type | 501(c)(3) |
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Fields | Software |
Key people | Michael Schultheiss (President) Stephen Frost (Vice President)[1] |
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Website | www |
SPI was originally created to allow the Debian Project to accept donations.[2] 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.[3][4]
The 44 currently associated projects of SPI are:[5]
Its current board is composed of:[7]