Richard Stallman, founder of the free software movement, the GNU Project, the Free Software Foundation and the League for Programming Freedom, the author of the GPL license, and the creator of projects such as GCC, GDB and Emacs, in his speech at the LibrePlanet 2021 conference announced the return to the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation BY. Jeffrey Knaut, who was elected in 2020, remains President of the SPO Foundation.
Recall that Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985, a year after the founding of the GNU Project. The organization was formed to protect against disreputable companies caught stealing the code and trying to sell some of the early GNU project tools developed by Stallman and his comrades. Three years later, Stallman drafted the first version of the GPL, setting the legal framework for the free software distribution model.
In September 2019, Richard Stallman stepped down as president of the Free Software Foundation and resigned from the organization's board of directors. The decision was made after accusations of behavior unworthy of the leader of the SPO movement, and threats to break off relations with the SPO of some communities and organizations. Later, an attempt was made to reduce Stallman's influence on the GNU project, in which he retained leadership, but this initiative was not successful.
Source: opennet.ru