FSF Award

; Larry Wall , 1998	; Miguel de Icaza , 1999
; Brian Paul , 2000	; Guido van Rossum , 2001
; Lawrence Lessig , 2002	; Alan Cox , 2003
; Theo de Raadt , 2004	; Andrew Tridgell , 2005
; Theodore Ts'o , 2006	; Harald Welte , 2007
; Wietse Venema , 2008	; John Gilmore , 2009
; Rob Savoye , 2010	; Yukihiro Matsumoto , 2011
	; Werner Koch , 2015

The FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software has been awarded by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) since 1998 to people who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of free software .

The 1999 award was presented at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City , the 2000 award at the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme in Paris, and the 2001-2004 award at the FOSDEM in Brussels . Since then, the award has been held during the annual meeting of FSF members in the United States .

Award winners

1998 - Larry Wall , for developing a variety of free software, particularly Perl
1999 - Miguel de Icaza , for leading the Gnome project and thus promoting the mainstream distribution of Linux
2000 - Brian Paul , for his work on the Mesa 3D graphics library

2001 - Guido van Rossum , for developing Python

2002 - Lawrence Lessig , for promoting the importance of understanding the political dimension of free software

2003 - Alan Cox , for advocating free software, fighting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act , and contributing to the Linux kernel

2004 - Theo de Raadt , for founding the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects

2005 - Andrew Tridgell , for developing the Samba project and reverse engineering the BitKeeper protocol

2006 - Theodore Ts'o , for numerous contributions in kernel development and security, in particular the Kerberos protocol and ONC RPC

2007 - Harald Welte , for the legal enforcement of the GPL with the project gpl-violations.org ; also for technical contributions to Openmoko and other things

2008 - Wietse Zweize Venema , for extensive technical contributions to network security and writing Postfix

2009 - John Gilmore , for establishing free software in the business world long before GNU / Linux became popular, and for numerous code and funding contributions to free software

2010 - Rob Savoye , for over 20 years of work on free software such as GCC , GDB , DejaGnu , Newlib , Cygwin , eCos , various Linux distributions and the One laptop per child project , but especially for the development of the free flash player Gnash

2011 - Yukihiro Matsumoto , for developing Ruby and working on GNU and other free software for over 20 years

2012 - Fernando Pérez , for developing IPython

2013 - Matthew Garrett , for his work to keep Secure Boot compatible with free software

2014 - Sébastien Jodogne , for his free Orthanc medical imaging program

2015 - Werner Koch , for his contributions to GnuPG

2016 - Alexandre Oliva , for his contributions to the GNU project

2017 - Karen Sandler , Head of Software Freedom Conservancy

2018 - Deborah Nicholson , Community Director at Software Freedom Conservancy

2019 - Jim Meyering , programmer

Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit

In addition to the Award for the Advancement of Free Software , the FSF has been awarding the Award for Projects of Social Benefit every year since 2005 to free software projects that make significant contributions to society. Previous winners:

2005 - Wikipedia

2006 - Sahana , for volunteering to establish a comprehensive disaster management system

2007 - Groklaw , for building a rich source of legal and technical information for developers, lawyers, professors and historians

2008 - Creative Commons , for promoting creative and scientific works that can be freely distributed and edited, and for drawing attention to the dangers of restrictive copyrights

2009 - Internet Archive , for building a free and open Internet library, for archiving billions of websites and for making your own contributions to free software

2010 - Tor , for enabling free internet access and freedom of expression while protecting privacy, important for dissidents in Iran and Egypt

2011 - GNU Solidario , for GNU Health , a software project that helps improve the lives of the underprivileged

2012 - OpenMRS , a free software for documenting medical records
2013 - GNOME Foundation's Outreach Program for Women
2014 - ReGlue , a project that gives GNU / Linux-equipped computers to people in need in Austin
2015 - Library Freedom Project , a project u. a. to establish gate exits in libraries
2016 - SecureDrop , an anonymous whistleblower platform
2017 - Public Lab , a project to democratize science
2018 - OpenStreetMap , a project to create maps
2019 - Let's Encrypt , a project for the encryption of data streams

Larry Wall , 1998	Miguel de Icaza , 1999
Brian Paul , 2000	Guido van Rossum , 2001
Lawrence Lessig , 2002	Alan Cox , 2003
Theo de Raadt , 2004	Andrew Tridgell , 2005
Theodore Ts'o , 2006	Harald Welte , 2007
Wietse Venema , 2008	John Gilmore , 2009
Rob Savoye , 2010	Yukihiro Matsumoto , 2011
Werner Koch , 2015

FSF Award

Award winners

Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit

Web links