Software in the Public Interest

Type: Private - Not-for-Profit
On the web: http://www.spi-inc.org

Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is a nonprofit organization established in 1997 that helps organizations develop and distribute open source (free) hardware and software. They encourage programmers to use the GNU General Public License or other licenses that allow free redistribution and use of software. SPI is an umbrella organization for 13 open source industry projects: Debian, Drupal, Fresco, freedesktop.org, Gallery, GNUstep, GNU TeXmacs, OFTC, OpenOffice.org, OpenVAS, Open Voting Foundation, PostgreSQL, and wxWidgets.

Officers:
President: Development Tools, Operating Systems & Utilities Software

Competitors:
Free Software Foundation
Microsoft
SCO Group

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Software in the Public Interest

Headquarters	New York
Staff	President: Bdale Garbee
Method	Software
Website	www.spi-inc.org

Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) is a non-profit organization 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 actively in the free software community.

Associated Projects

Current associated projects of SPI are:

• Debian
• Drupal
• freedesktop.org
• Fresco (unmaintained)
• Gallery
• GNUstep
• The HeliOS Project
• Open64
• OFTC
• OpenOffice.org
• OpenVAS
• OpenWrt
• Open Voting Foundation (unmaintained)
• PostgreSQL
• Privoxy
• TeXmacs
• wxWidgets

Board of directors

Its current board (elected by the Schulze method, a Condorcet method) is composed of:

• President: Bdale Garbee
• Vice-President: Joerg Jaspert
• Secretary: Jimmy Kaplowitz
• Treasurer: Michael Schultheiss
• Board of Directors:
  • Luk Claes
  • Joshua D. Drake
  • David Graham
  • Jonathan McDowell
  • Martin Zobel-Helas
• Advisors:
  • Legal counsel — Gregory Pomerantz
  • Debian Project Leader — currently Steve McIntyre
  • PostgreSQL Project Board representative — currently Robert Treat

External links

Free software portal

• Official website

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