Free Standards Group

The Free Standards Group is an industry non-profit consortium that primarily specifies and drives the adoption of the open source standards.

All standards developed by the Free Standards Group are released under open terms (currently the GNU Free Documentation License with no cover texts or invariant sections) and test suites, reference implementations and other software are released as open source.

Work Groups

• The Linux Standard Base is a set of interface standards allowing for the ultimate portability of applications across free and open source platforms. Conformance with this specification is certified by the Open Group (under contract with the Free Standards Group).
• The Open Internationalization Initiative (OpenI18N) is a standard that creates a foundation for language globalization of compliant distributions and applications.
• The Linux Assigned Names and Numbers Authority (LANANA)
• OpenPrinting is creating a scalable printing architecture and high-level requirements for a standardized printing system.
• Accessibility is developing accessibility standards for free and open source platforms.
• Open Cluster is defining a set of clustering interface standards.
• The DWARF Debugging Format Standard.

The Free Standards Group also has individual memberships; the board of directors is elected annually by all of the membership.

External Links

• Official page