# Richard Stallman

> He wrote the licenses that let programmers share code without surrender - and spent forty years insisting software freedom is a moral duty, not a convenience. The GNU Project, the Free Software Foundation, the GPL: his architecture for a world where users control the machines.

*American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/richard-stallman

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Activist
- **Category:** Activists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1953-03-16
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Richard Matthew Stallman launched the GNU Project in September 1983 to build a Unix-like operating system made entirely of free software, kicking off the free software movement itself. He developed key GNU tools - the C Compiler, Debugger, GNU Emacs - and pioneered copyleft, using copyright law to guarantee users' rights to use, study, modify, and distribute code. In October 1985 he founded the Free Software Foundation and wrote all versions of the GNU General Public License, now the most widely used free software license. Since the mid-1990s he's spent most of his time advocating for software freedom and against patents, digital rights management, and proprietary formats. In September 2019 he resigned as FSF president and left MIT after controversial comments about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, but remained head of the GNU Project and returned to the FSF board in 2021.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 78.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 6.6 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 25.2 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 9.1 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 75.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 85.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #5

## Platforms
- **WEBSITE**: https://stallman.org/
- **X**: https://x.com/rmspostcomments (@rmspostcomments)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1128476/ (@nm1128476)

## Topics
#Scientists, #Developer, #Web Development, #AI, #United States, #Americas, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **2016** - Doctor Honoris Causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University
- **2015** - ACM Software System Award
- **2003** - Honorary Doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- **2001** - Honorary Doctorate of the University of Glasgow
- **2001** - Takeda Awards
- **1999** - Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award
- **1990** - Grace Murray Hopper Award
- **1990** - MacArthur Fellows Program
- **1953** - Born

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