The Free Software Directory
The Free Software Directory is a catalog of useful free software that runs under free operating systems. FSF staff and volunteers work together to collect detailed information about free software programs and organize it in a clear and accessible format.
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Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. Think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free beer”. Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.
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Free software to use for ...
- copying
- compressing
- editing
- education
- gameplaying
- hobbies
- interface
- internet-application
- library
- live-communications
- localization
- mathematics
- mixing
- organizing
- playing
- printing
- reading
- science
- security
- software-development
- storage
- system-administration
- text-creation
- timekeeping
- video
- web-authoring
- more...
Free software that interfaces with ...
Free software for business ...
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About
The Free Software Directory is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). We catalog useful free software that runs under free operating systems — particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants.
Licenses are verified for each and every program listed in this directory.
If you are looking for a full operating system for your computer, please see our list of free GNU/Linux distributions.
The FSF provides this directory as a service to the free software community. Please consider donating to the FSF to help support this project.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the page “GNU Free Documentation License”.
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