<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> <!-- Parent-Version:1.761.77 --> <!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" --> <title>Educational Free Software - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> <!--#include virtual="/education/po/edu-software.translist" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> <div id="education-content"> <!-- begin edu navigation bar --> <ul id="edu-navigation"> <li><a href="/education/edu-contents.html">Education Contents</a></li> <li><a href="/education/edu-cases.html">Case Studies</a></li> <li class="active"><a href="/education/edu-resources.html">Educational Resources</a></li> <li><a href="/education/edu-projects.html">Education Projects</a></li> <li><a href="/education/edu-faq.html">FAQ</a></li> <li><a href="/education/edu-team.html">The Education Team</a></li> </ul> <!-- end edu navigation bar --> </div> <!-- id="edu-content" --> <p class="edu-breadcrumb"> <a href="/education/education.html">Education</a> → <a href="/education/edu-resources.html">Educational Resources</a> → Educational Free Software</p> <!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> <!--#if expr="$OUTDATED_SINCE" --><!--#else --> <!--#if expr="$LANGUAGE_SUFFIX" --> <!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="no" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" --> <!--#endif --> <!--#endif --> <h2>Educational Free Software</h2> <div class="emph-box"> <p>Before addressing the subject in this section, we would like to remind our readers that the word "Free" in "Free Software" <strong>does not refer to price</strong> but to <strong>liberty</strong>. Free Software is software that grants you <strong>freedom</strong>, namely the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. To learn more, see the <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html"> Free Software definition</a>.</p> </div> <h3>What you will find in this section</h3><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 110%; width: 300px; float: right; margin: 12px; background-color: #fcc76f; color: #000000; padding: 1em;"><blockquote class="note"><p> We are looking for free educational games, or information about free games that can be used for educational purposes. Contact <ahref="mailto:education@gnu.org"><education@gnu.org></a></div>href="mailto:education@gnu.org"><education@gnu.org></a>. </p></blockquote> <p>These pages do not constitute an exhaustive listing of available educational free programs. Our aim is to present some examples so as to illustrate how educational institutions can put into practice and effectively apply the freedoms that Free Software grants them. For each program described, we will show how those freedoms were actually applied. </p> <p>People who wish to migrate to Free Software or are looking for a free libre program to accomplish a particular task, should refer to the <a href="http://directory.fsf.org">Free Software Directory</a>, which consists of a catalog of more than 6,000 free programs that run on <a href="http://gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html">free operating systems</a>. In particular, the <a href="http://directory.fsf.org/category/educ/">Education</a> section of the Directory lists programs inherent to different levels of education, from pre-elementary school to highly specialized levels, including university and research.</p> <p>Some of the programs presented here, like GCompris, are part of the GNU Project. This means that developers of these programs agree to pay attention to making the program work well with the rest of the GNU System. A GNU program uses the latest version of the license that the GNU Project recommends in order to protect the users' fundamental freedoms. A GNU program does not recommend the use of any non-free program, and it does not refer the user to any non-free documentation for Free Software, as defined in our campaign for <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html"> free documentation</a>.</p> <p>The following are the examples that we present:</p> <!-- begin adding programs in alphabetical order --> <p> <a href="/education/edu-software-gcompris.html">GCompris</a> | <a href="/education/edu-software-gimp.html">GIMP</a> | <a href="/education/edu-software-tuxpaint.html">Tux Paint</a> | </p> <!-- end adding programs --> <p>If you know of a Free Software program that is being used by an educational institution for specific purposes, or has been modified or otherwise adapted by its users to meet their own educational needs, please let us know by sending an email to <a href="mailto:education@gnu.org"><education@gnu.org></a>.</p> </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> <div id="footer"> <div class="unprintable"> <p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to <a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p> <p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph, replace it with the translation of these two: We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality translations. However, we are not exempt from imperfection. 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