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1 Applied fields
1.1 Artificial intelligence
1.2 CAD
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1.3 Computer simulation

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1.4 Finance

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1.5 Integrated Library Management Software

1.6 Image editor

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1.8 Reference management software

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1.9 Science
1.9.1 Bioinformatics

Languages

1.9.2 Cheminformatics

Afrikaans

1.9.3 Geographic Information Systems

Espaol

1.9.4 Grid Computing

Esperanto

1.9.5 Microscope image processing

1.9.6 Molecular dynamics

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1.9.7 Molecule viewer

1.9.8 Nanotechnology

1.9.9 Plotting

1.10 Risk Management

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1.11 Statistics

1.12 Surveys

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1.13 Quantum chemistry

2 Assistive technology

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2.1 Speech (synthesis and recognition)

2.2 Other assistive technology

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3 Data storage and management

3.1 Backup software
3.2 Database management systems (including administration)
3.3 Data mining

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3.4 Data Visualization Components

3.5 Digital Asset Management software
3.6 Disk partitioning software
3.7 Enterprise search engines
3.8 ETLs (Extract Transform Load)
3.9 File archivers
3.10 File Systems
4 Networking and Internet
4.1 Advertising
4.2 Communication-related
4.3 E-mail
4.4 File transfer
4.5 Instant messaging
4.6 IRC Clients
4.7 Middleware
4.8 RSS/Atom readers/aggregators
4.9 Peer-to-peer file sharing
4.10 Portal Server
4.11 Remote access and management
4.12 Routing software
4.13 Web browsers
4.14 Webcam
4.15 Webgrabber
4.16 Web-related
4.17 Other networking programs
5 Educational
5.1 Educational suites
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5.2 Geography
5.3 Learning support
5.4 Language
5.5 Typing
5.6 Other educational programs
6 File managers
7 Games
7.1 Application layer
8 Genealogy
9 Graphical user interface
9.1 Desktop environments
9.2 Window managers
9.3 Windowing system
10 Groupware
10.1 Content management systems
10.2 Wiki software
11 Healthcare software
12 Media
12.1 2D animation
12.2 3D animation
12.3 Audio editors / audio management
12.4 CD/USB-writing software
12.5 Flash animation
12.6 Graphics
12.7 Image galleries
12.8 Image viewers
12.9 Multimedia codecs / containers / splitters
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12.10 Television
12.11 Video converters
12.12 Video editing
12.13 Video encoders
12.14 Video players
12.15 Other media packages
13 Operating systems
13.1 Emulation and Virtualisation
14 Password management
15 Personal information managers
16 Programming language support
16.1 Bug trackers
16.2 Code generators
16.3 Documentation generators
16.4 Configuration software
16.5 Debuggers (for testing and trouble-shooting)
16.6 Integrated development environments
16.7 Version control systems
17 Screensavers
18 Security
18.1 Anti-virus
18.2 Data loss prevention
18.3 Data recovery
18.3.1 Forensics
18.4 Disk erasing
18.5 Encryption
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18.6 Firewall
18.7 Network and security monitoring
18.8 Secure Shell (ssh)
18.9 Other security programs
19 Theology
19.1 Bible study tools
20 Typesetting
21 See also
21.1 General directories
22 References
23 External links
23.1 General Directories
23.2 Open source for Windows

Applied fields

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Artificial intelligence [edit]

General
OpenCog A project that aims to build an artificial general intelligence (AGI) framework.
OpenCog Prime is a specific set of interacting components designed to give rise to humanequivalent artificial general intelligence.
Computer Vision
AForge.NET Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics library for the .NET
Framework
OpenCV Computer Vision Library in C++
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Machine Learning
See Data Mining below
See R programming languagepackages of statistical learning and analysis tools
Planning
TREX Reactive planning
Robotics
ROS Robot Operating System

CAD [edit]
Main category: Free computer-aided design software
FreeCAD
Electronic design automation (EDA) [edit]
Main category: Free electronic design automation software

Computer simulation [edit]

Blender; 3D modeling software written in C, C++ and Python that can make animations and
graphics for games
SimPy; queue-theoretic event-based simulator written in Python
flightgear is an open source flight simulator written for Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux.

Finance [edit]
Adempiere Enterprise resource planning(ERP) business suite
Bitcoin Peer to peer decentralised digital currency.
Bonita Open Solution Business Process Management
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CiviCRM - Constituent Relationship Management software aimed at NGO's

Compiere ERP solution automates accounting, supply chain, inventory and sales orders
Cyclos Software for microfinance institutions, complementary currency systems and
timebanks
Dolibarr Web-based ERP system.
Ebase Constituent relationship management developed especially for non-profit
organizations
Frontaccounting web-based Double-entry book-keeping and ERP system
GnuCash Double-entry book-keeping
Grisbi Single-entry
HomeBank for personal use
jFin
JFire An ERP Business Suite written with Java and JDO
JGnash Java-based, double-entry book-keeping
JQuantLib Java-based Quantitative Finance API framework for financial instrument valuation
and more...
KMyMoney Double-entry book-keeping
LedgerSMB Double-entry book-keeping
Mifos Microfinance Institution management software
Openbravo
Odoo ERP, eCommerce, and CMS system
OrangeHRM Commercial Human Resource Management
Postbooks Integrated Accounting and ERP Business Suite
QuickFIX FIX protocol engine written in C++ with additional C#, Ruby, and Python wrappers
QuickFIX/J FIX protocol engine written in Java
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SQL Ledger Double-entry book-keeping

SugarCRM Commercial Customer Relationship Management
Tryton
TurboCASH Double-entry book-keeping for Windows
vtiger CRM Customer Relationship Management(CRM) software with Sales force
automation, marketing management,Customer Service/Support,Inventory Management
WebERP Web-based ERP system
See also: Comparison of accounting software

Integrated Library Management Software [edit]

Evergreen
Koha
NewGenLib
OpenBiblio
PMB
refbase Web-based institutional repository and reference management software

Image editor [edit]

Darktable - Digital image workflow management, including RAW processing.
digiKam - Integrated photography toolkit including editing capabilities.
GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program
Inkscape - An Open Source vector graphics editor.

Mathematics [edit]
For a more comprehensive list, see List of open-source software for mathematics.
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Reference management software [edit]

See Comparison of reference management software.

Science [edit]
Main category: Free science software
Bioinformatics [edit]
See List of open source bioinformatics software.
Cheminformatics [edit]
Chemistry Development Kit
JOELib
OpenBabel
Geographic Information Systems [edit]
Main category: Free GIS software
Grid Computing [edit]
P-GRADE Portal Grid portal software enabling the creation, execution and monitoring of
workflows through high-level Web interfaces
Microscope image processing [edit]
CellProfiler
Endrov
FIJI (software)
ImageJ
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Molecular dynamics [edit]

Abalone
Ascalaph Designer
GROMACS
LAMMPS
MDynaMix
NAMD
NWChem
Molecule viewer [edit]
Avogadro
BALLView
Jmol
Molekel
MeshLab, able to import PDB dataset and build up surfaces from them
PyMOL
QuteMol
RasMol
Nanotechnology [edit]
Ninithi visualize and analyze the carbon allotropes such as Carbon nanotube, Fullerene,
Graphene nanoribbons
Plotting [edit]
Main category: Free plotting software

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Risk Management [edit]

Active Agenda - Operational risk management and Rapid application development platform

Statistics [edit]
Main category: Free statistical software

Surveys [edit]
LimeSurvey Online survey system

Quantum chemistry [edit]

CP2K
GAMESS (US)

Assistive technology

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Speech (synthesis and recognition) [edit]

CMU Sphinx Speech recognition software from Carnegie Mellon University
Emacspeak Audio desktop
ESpeak compact software speech synthesizer for English and other languages
Festival Speech Synthesis System
Modular Audio Recognition Framework voice, audio, speech NLP processing
NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) Screen reader for Windows
Text2Speech Lightweight and easy to use Text To Speech (TTS) Software

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Dasher Unique text input software

Gnopernicus AT suite for GNOME 2
Virtual Magnifying Glass a multiplatform, screen magnification tool.

Data storage and management

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Backup software [edit]

Main category: Free backup software

Database management systems (including administration) [edit]

Main category: Free database management systems

Data mining [edit]

Environment for DeveLoping KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures (ELKI) data
mining software framework written in Java with a focus on clustering and outlier detection
methods.
SCaViS Java-based data analysis framework
Konstanz Information Miner (KNIME)
OpenNN Open source neural networks software library written in the C++ programming
language.
Orange (software) data visualization and data mining for novice and experts, through visual
programming or Python scripting. Extensions for bioinformatics and text mining.
RapidMiner data mining software written in Java, fully integrating Weka, featuring 350+
operators for preprocessing, machine learning, visualization, etc.
Scriptella ETL ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) and script execution tool. Supports integration
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Weka data mining software written in Java featuring machine learning operators for
classification, regression, and clustering.
JasperSoft data mining with programmable abstraction layer.

Data Visualization Components [edit]

ParaView plotting and visualization functions developed by Sandia National Laboratory,
capable of massively parallel flow visualization utilizing multiple computer processors
VTK is a toolkit for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization.

Digital Asset Management software [edit]

OpenDAM, Free Open Source Digital Asset Management for enterprise content management
integration, to manage image, pictures and video files.

Disk partitioning software [edit]

Main category: Free partitioning software

Enterprise search engines [edit]

ApexKB, formerly known as Jumper
Lucene
Nutch
Solr
Xapian

ETLs (Extract Transform Load) [edit]

CloverETL (Community Edition)
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Konstanz Information Miner (KNIME)

Pentaho
SpagoBI
Talend

File archivers [edit]

Main category: Free data compression software

File Systems [edit]

OpenAFS a distributed file system supporting a very wide variety of operating systems
Tahoe-LAFS a distributed file system/Cloud storage system with integrated privacy and
security features
CephFS a distributed file system included in the Ceph storage platform.

Networking and Internet

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Advertising [edit]
OpenX

Communication-related [edit]
Asterisk Telephony and VoIP server
Ekiga Video conferencing application for GNOME and Microsoft Windows
FreePBX Front-end and advanced PBX configuration for Asterisk
FreeSWITCH Telephony platform
Jitsi Java VoIP and Instant Messaging client
QuteCom Free Voice, Video and IM client application
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QuteCom Free Voice, Video and IM client application

Enterprise Communications System sipXecs SIP Communications Server
Slrn a newsreader
Twinkle VOIP softphone

E-mail [edit]
Main category: Free email software
Mozilla Thunderbird

File transfer [edit]

Main category: Free file transfer software

Instant messaging [edit]

Main category: Free instant messaging clients

IRC Clients [edit]

Main category: Free Internet Relay Chat clients

Middleware [edit]
Apache Axis2 Web service framework (implementations are available in both Java & C)
Apache Geronimo
Bonita Open Solution(software) a J2EE web application and java BPMN2 compliant engine
GlassFish Application Server
Jakarta Tomcat a servlet container and standalone webserver
JBoss Application Server an application server
ObjectWeb JOnAS Java Open Application Server, a J2EE application server
TAO (software) C++ implementation of the OMG's CORBA standard
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RSS/Atom readers/aggregators [edit]

Akregator Platforms running KDE
Liferea Platforms running GNOME
RSS Bandit Windows - .NET
RSSOwl Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux - Java SWT Eclipse
Sage (Mozilla Firefox extension)

Peer-to-peer file sharing [edit]

Main category: Free file sharing software
See also Category:Free BitTorrent clients.

Portal Server [edit]

Drupal
eXo Platform
Liferay
Oxwall Community site software
Sun Java System Portal Server
uPortal

Remote access and management [edit]

FreeNX
OpenVPN
rdesktop
Synergy
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VNC (RealVNC, TightVNC, UltraVNC)

FreeRDP
Remmina

Routing software [edit]

Main category: Free routing software

Web browsers [edit]

Main category: Free web browsers

Webcam [edit]
Cheese

Webgrabber [edit]
cURL
HTTrack
Wget

Web-related [edit]
Apache Cocoon a web application framework
Apache the most popular web server
AWStats a log file parser and analyzer
BookmarkSync a tool for browsers
Cherokee Speedy, feature rich HTTP Server
curl-loader a powerful HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/FTPS loading and testing open-source tool
Hiawatha Secure, high performance and easy-to-configure HTTP Server
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HTTP File Server a user friendly file server software with a drag and drop interface
lighttpd Resource sparing but also fast and full featured HTTP Server
nginx lightweight, high performance web server/reverse proxy and e-mail (IMAP/POP3) proxy
NetKernel an internet application server
Piwik a web analytics system
Qcodo a PHP5 framework
Railo CFML Application Server
Squid (software) web proxy cache
XAMPP a package of web applications including Apache and MySQL
Zope a web application server

Other networking programs [edit]

JXplorer a LDAP client
OpenLDAP a LDAP server
openVXI a VoiceXML interpreter
YaCy P2P-based search engine

Educational

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Educational suites [edit]

ATutor a web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS)
Chamilo a web-based e-learning and content management system
DoceboLMS
eFront an icon-based learning management system
FlightPath - academic advising software for universities
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GCompris
Gnaural Brainwave entrainment software
IUP Portfolio
ILIAS a web-based learning management system (LMS)
Moodle
Omeka
openSIS a web-based Student Information and School Management system
Sakai Project a web-based learning management system
SWAD - a web-based learning management system
Tux Paint a paint application for 312 year olds

Geography [edit]
KGeography

Learning support [edit]

Main category: Free learning support software

Language [edit]
Kiten
KVerbos

Typing [edit]
KTouch
Tux Typing

Other educational programs [edit]

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KEduca

File managers

[edit]

Main category: Free file managers

Games

[edit]

Main article: List of open source games

Application layer [edit]

WINE

Genealogy

[edit]

Main category: Free genealogy software

Graphical user interface

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Desktop environments [edit]

Main category: Free desktop environments

Window managers [edit]

Main category: Free X window managers

Windowing system [edit]

Main category: Free windowing systems
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Groupware

[edit]

Main category: Free groupware

Content management systems [edit]

Main category: Free content management systems

Wiki software [edit]

Main category: Free wiki software

Healthcare software

[edit]

Main articles: List of open source healthcare software and List of Open Source Bioinformatics
software

Media

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2D animation [edit]
Pencil
Synfig
Tupi (formerly KTooN)

3D animation [edit]
Art of Illusion
Blender
K-3D
OpenFX
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Seamless3d

Audio editors / audio management [edit]

Main article: Free audio software

CD/USB-writing software [edit]

Main category: Free optical disc authoring software

Flash animation [edit]

Pencil Animation (for animations)
SWFTools (for scripting)

Graphics [edit]
Main category: Free graphics software

Image galleries [edit]

Main category: Free image galleries

Image viewers [edit]

Eye of GNOME
F-spot
Geeqie
Gthumb
Gwenview
Kphotoalbum
Opticks
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Multimedia codecs / containers / splitters [edit]

Main category: Free multimedia codecs, containers, and splitters

Television [edit]
Main article: List of free television software
Main category: Free television software
See also: Comparison of PVR software packages

Video converters [edit]

Main category: Free video conversion software
Dr. DivX
FFmpeg
MEncoder
OggConvert
Transcode

Video editing [edit]

See also: List of video editing software Free_and_open-source
Avidemux
AviSynth
Blender
Cinelerra
DScaler
DVD Flick
Kaltura
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Kdenlive
Kino
LiVES
OpenShot Video Editor
Pitivi
VirtualDub
VirtualDubMod
VideoLAN Movie Creator VLMC is a non-linear editing software for video creation based on
libVLC and running on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Video encoders [edit]

Main article: Comparison of video encoders
Avidemux
HandBrake

Video players [edit]

Main article: Comparison of video player software
VLC
Media Player Classic

Other media packages [edit]

Celtx Media Pre-production Software
Gnome Subtitles

Operating systems
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Be advised that available distributions of these systems can contain, or offer to build and install,
added software that is neither free software nor open source.
Main category: Free software operating systems

Emulation and Virtualisation [edit]

Main category: Free emulation software
Main category: Free virtualization software
Virtual Box

Password management

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KeePass
Password Safe
Mitro

Personal information managers

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Chandler developed by the OSAF.

KAddressBook
Kontact
KOrganizer
Mozilla Calendar A Mozilla-based, multiplatform calendar program.
Novell Evolution
OpenSync (software)
Project.net Commercial Project Management
TeamLab Platform for project management and collaboration
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Programming language support

[edit]

Main article: List of open-source programming languages

Bug trackers [edit]

Bugzilla
Mantis
Mindquarry
Redmine
Trac

Code generators [edit]

Bison
CodeSynthesis XSD XML Data Binding compiler for C++
CodeSynthesis XSD/e Validating XML parser/serializer and C++ XML Data Binding generator
for mobile and embedded systems
Flex lexical analyser generates lexical analyzers
Kodos
Open Scene Graph 3D graphics application programming interface
OpenSCDP Open Smart Card Development Platform
phpCodeGenie
SableCC parser generator for Java and .Net
SWIG Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator for several languages
^txt2regex$
xmlbeansxx XML Data Binding code generator for C++
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YAKINDU Statechart Tools statechart code generator for C++ and Java

Documentation generators [edit]

Doxygen : a tool for writing software reference documentation. The documentation is written
within code.
Mkd : The software documentation is extracted from the sources files, from pseudocode or
comments.
Natural Docs : claims to use a more natural language as input from the comments, hence its
name.

Configuration software [edit]

Autoconf
Automake
CMake

Debuggers (for testing and trouble-shooting) [edit]

GNU Debugger "works for many programming languages [...]"
Memtest86 Stress-tests RAM on x86 machines
Xnee Record and replay tests

Integrated development environments [edit]

Main category: Free integrated development environments

Version control systems [edit]

Main category: Free revision control software

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Screensavers

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Boinc
Electric Sheep
XScreenSaver

Security

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Anti-virus [edit]
ClamAV
ClamWin
Gateway Anti-Virus
Lynis

Data loss prevention [edit]

MyDLP

Data recovery [edit]

dvdisaster
Foremost
PhotoRec
TestDisk
See also: List of data recovery software
Forensics [edit]
The Coroner's Toolkit
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The Sleuth Kit

Disk erasing [edit]

DBAN
srm

Encryption [edit]
GnuPG
GnuTLS
KGPG
OpenSSL
Seahorse
TextSecure
Disk encryption [edit]
CrossCrypt
FreeOTFE and FreeOTFE Explorer
eCryptfs

Firewall [edit]
Coyote Linux
Firestarter
IPCop
IPFilter
IPFire
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Iptables
M0n0wall
PeerGuardian
PF
pfSense
Rope
Shorewall
SmoothWall
Untangle
Vyatta

Network and security monitoring [edit]

Main category: Free network management software

Secure Shell (ssh) [edit]

Cyberduck Mac OS X and Windows client (since version 4.0)
Lsh server and client (supporting SRP and Kerberos authentication)
OpenSSH client/server
PuTTY client only

Other security programs [edit]

Main category: Free security software

Theology

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Bible study tools [edit]

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BibleDesktop For Cross-platform

BibleTime For Linux using KDE
Go Bible For Java Mobile Phones
jSword For Java
MacSword For Mac OS X
Marcion For Linux and Windows, using Qt UI Framework and embedded MySql server
openlp.org Worship presentation software for churches to display songs, bibles, movies etc.
SwordBible For Windows
The SWORD Project for Windows For Windows
Xiphos The_SWORD_Project For Linux using GNOME

Typesetting

[edit]

Main category: Free typesetting software

See also

[edit]

List of GNOME applications

List of GNU packages

Free software portal

List of KDE applications

List of liberated software
List of Unix programs

General directories [edit]

SourceForge.net
Freshmeat
Ohloh
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CodePlex

References

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1. ^ Richard Stallman (July 13, 2011). "Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software"

Retrieved August 24, 2011.

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General Directories [edit]

Free Software Directory

The Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation.

Open Source Software Directory

Provides a list of open source software organized by

categories.
Open Source Living

Open Source Living is a community-driven dynamic archive of Open

Source software.
Ohloh

Ohloh is an open source directory that anyone can edit.

AlternativeTo

- user-edited directory of alternatives to popular software - both open source

and non-open-source. Alternatives are listed under the software they are considered an
alternative to, rather than requiring the user to browse to a relevant category.

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List Of Open-source Programs (LOOP list) for Windows

TheOpenDisc.com

pre-assembled disc of OSS for Windows (successor to

TheOpenCD.org )
The OSSwin project : Open Source for Windows
Free and open-source software

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Alternative terms for free software Comparison of open source and closed source
Comparison of open-source software hosting facilities Formerly proprietary software
Free and open-source Android applications
General

Free and open-source software packages Free software Free software events
Free software movement Free software project directories
Free software web applications Gratis versus libre Long-term support
Open-source software Outline SPDX

Operating system
families
Development
History

AROS BSD Contiki Darwin eCos FreeDOS GNU Haiku Inferno Linux Mach
MINIX OpenSolaris Plan 9 ReactOS TUD:OS
Basic For Qt Eclipse Free Pascal FreeBASIC Gambas GCC Java Julia LLVM
Lua NetBeans Open64 OpenSSH Perl PHP Python ROSE Ruby Tcl
GNU Haiku Linux Mozilla (Application Suite Firefox Thunderbird)
Android Open Source Project Apache Software Foundation Blender Foundation
The Document Foundation Eclipse Foundation Free Software Foundation (Europe
India Latin America) FreeBSD Foundation freedesktop.org FSMI
GNOME Foundation GNU Project Google Code KDE e.V. Linux Foundation

Organizations

Mozilla Foundation Open Knowledge Foundation Open Source Geospatial Foundation

Open Source Initiative OpenBSD Foundation Software Freedom Conservancy
SourceForge Symbian Foundation Ubuntu Foundation VideoLAN Organization
Wikimedia Foundation X.Org Foundation Xiph.Org Foundation
XMPP Standards Foundation

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Licenses

Apache Artistic Beerware Boost BSD CC0 GNU GPL GNU LGPL ISC MIT MPL
Ms-PL/RL WTFPL zlib
Comparison of free and open-source software licenses

License types
and standards

Contributor License Agreement Copyfree Copyleft Debian Free Software Guidelines

Definition of Free Cultural Works Free license The Free Software Definition
The Open Source Definition Open-source license Permissive free software licence
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