Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization domiciled in New York State 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 in the free software community.
SPI was originally created to allow the Debian Project to accept donations.[3] It now acts as a fiscal sponsor to many free and open source projects.
SPI has hosted Wikimedia Foundation board elections and audited the tally as a neutral third party from 2007 to 2011.[4][5]
Associated projects
The 45 currently associated projects of SPI are:[6]
- 0 A.D.
- Adélie Linux
- ankur.org.in
- aptosid
- Arch Linux
- Arch Linux 32
- ArduPilot
- The Battle for Wesnoth
- Compile Farm
- Debian
- FFmpeg
- Fluxbox
- Gallery
- Ganeti
- Gentoo Linux[7]
- GNUstep
- GNU TeXmacs
- Haskell.org
- Himmelblau Foundation[8]
- Libreboot
- LibreOffice
- MinGW
- MPI Forum
- NTPsec
- ns-3
- OFTC
- Open Bioinformatics Foundation
- Open MPI
- Open Voting Foundation
- OpenEmbedded
- OpenSAF
- OpenVAS
- OpenZFS
- PMIx
- POCO
- PostgreSQL
- Privoxy
- Rigs of Rods
- Rocket
- SproutCore
- Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
- systemd
- The Mana World
- translatewiki.net
- Tux4Kids
- Whisper - talk without Voice
- YafaRay
See also
External links
References
- SPI Board retrieved 2025-10-03^
- Software In The Public Interest Inc - Full text of "Full Filing" for fiscal year ending Dec. 2022 Nonprofit Explorer, ProPublica, retrieved June 20, 2023^
- A Brief History of Debian Debian Project, 2012-08-10, retrieved 2012-09-27^
- Board elections/2007/en Wikimedia, 2013-04-27, retrieved 2013-09-30^
- Board elections/2011/en Wikimedia, 2012-07-02, retrieved 2013-09-30^
- SPI Associated Projects Spi-inc.org, 2026-01-16, retrieved September 26, 2025^
- Gentoo Linux becomes an SPI associated project Apr 10, 2024^
- Himmelblau Foundation^