FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software - Definition and Overview

The Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software is annually presented to a person who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software.

Since 2001, the award has been presented at Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM).

Winners (finalists in parentheses)

• 2003: Alan Cox — (Theo de Raadt and Werner Koch)
• 2002: Lawrence Lessig — (Bruno Haible and Theo de Raadt)
• 2001: Guido van Rossum — (L. Peter Deutsch and Andrew Tridgell)
• 2000: Brian Paul — (Donald Becker and Patrick Lenz)
• 1999: Miguel de Icaza — (Donald Knuth and John Gilmore)
• 1998: Larry Wall — (The Apache Project, Tim Berners-Lee, Jordan Hubbard, Ted Lemon, Eric S. Raymond, Henry Spencer)

External links

• Official site (http://www.gnu.org/award/)