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.
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| Founded | June 16, 1997 |
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| Type | 501(c)(3) |
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| Fields | Software |
Key people | Michael Schultheiss (President) Jonatas L. Nogueira (Vice President)[1] |
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| Website | www |
SPI was originally created to allow the Debian Project to accept donations.[3] 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.[4][5]
Associated projects
editThe 45 currently associated projects of SPI are:[6]
- 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[7]
- GNUstep
- GNU TeXmacs
- Haskell.org
- Himmelblau Foundation[8]
- 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
- Whisper - talk without Voice
- YafaRay
See also
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References
edit- ↑ "SPI Board". Retrieved 2025-10-03.
- 1 2 "Software In The Public Interest Inc - Full text of "Full Filing" for fiscal year ending Dec. 2022". Nonprofit Explorer. ProPublica. Retrieved June 20, 2023.
- ↑ "A Brief History of Debian". Debian Project. 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-09-27.
- ↑ "Board elections/2007/en". Wikimedia. 2013-04-27. Retrieved 2013-09-30.
- ↑ "Board elections/2011/en". Wikimedia. July 2, 2012. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
- ↑ "SPI Associated Projects". Spi-inc.org. January 16, 2026. Archived from the original on September 26, 2025. Retrieved September 26, 2025.
- ↑ Gentoo Linux becomes an SPI associated project Apr 10, 2024
- ↑ Himmelblau Foundation
External links
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