Outline of free software

See also: Portal:Free software

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to free software and the free software movement:

Free software – software which can be run, studied, examined, modified, and redistributed freely (without any cost). This type of software, which was given its name in 1983, has also come to be known as "open-source software", "software libre", "FOSS", and "FLOSS". The term "Free" refers to it being unfettered, rather than being free of charge.

Large free software projects

• GNU Project
• Linux
• Berkeley Software Distribution

Free software by type

• Free statistical software

Free software products

• List of free software project directories
• List of formerly proprietary software
• List of Linux distributions
  • List of Ubuntu-based distributions
• List of open source software packages
  • Comparison of open source wireless drivers
  • List of open source statistical packages
  • List of trademarked open source software
• List of free and open-source Android applications
• List of free and open-source software packages
• List of free software web applications

Operating system families

• Comparison of open-source operating systems
• AROS
• BSD
• Darwin
• eCos
• FreeDOS
• GNU
• Haiku
• Inferno
• Linux
• Mach
• MINIX
• OpenSolaris
• Plan 9
• ReactOS

Open-source software development products

Open-source software development

• Basic For Qt
• Eclipse
• Free Pascal
• FreeBASIC
• Gambas
• GCC
• Java
• LLVM
• Lua
• NetBeans
• Open64
• Perl
• PHP
• Python
• ROSE
• Ruby
• Tcl

Free software movement

Free software movement

• Alternative terms for free software
• Debian Social Contract
• Free-software licence
• Gratis versus Libre
• Open source
  • Open-source definition
  • Open-source software
  • Comparison of open source and closed source
  • Comparison of open-source software hosting facilities
• Open standard
• Long-term support
• Software Package Data Exchange

Challenges

• Binary blob
• Digital rights management
• Free and open-source graphics device driver
• Hardware restrictions
• License proliferation
• Mozilla software rebranded by Debian
• Proprietary software
• SCO–Linux controversies
• Windows 8#Secure boot
• Software patents and free software
• Open-source software security
• Trusted Computing

Free software licenses

Free software license

Specific licenses

• Apache
• Artistic
• Beerware
• Boost Software License
• BSD licenses
• CC0
• GNU General Public License
• GNU Lesser General Public License
• ISC license
• MIT License
• Mozilla Public License
• Ms-PL/RL
• WTFPL
• zlib License

License types and standards

• Comparison of free and open-source software licenses
• 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
• Public domain
• Viral license

History of the free software movement

Main article: History of free software

• Free Software Foundation
• SCO-Linux controversies
• Open Source Initiative
• History of GNU
• History of Haiku
• History of Linux
• History of the Linux kernel
• Mozilla
  • History of Mozilla Application Suite
  • History of Firefox
  • History of Mozilla Thunderbird

Events

• List of free-software events

Organizations

• Android Open Source Project
• Apache Software Foundation
• Blender Foundation
• The Document Foundation
• Eclipse Foundation
• Free Software Foundation
  • Free Software Foundation Europe
  • Free Software Foundation of India
  • Free Software Foundation Latin America
• FreeBSD Foundation
• freedesktop.org
• Free Software Movement of India
• GNOME Foundation
• GNU Project
• Google Code
• KDE e.V.
• Linux Foundation
• Mozilla Foundation
• Open Knowledge Foundation
• Open Source Geospatial Foundation
• Open Source Initiative
• Software Freedom Conservancy
• SourceForge
• Symbian Foundation
• Ubuntu Foundation
• X.Org Foundation
• Xiph.Org Foundation
• XMPP Standards Foundation

Persons influential in the free software movement

Well known scholars

• Lawrence Lessig
• John Gilmore
• Eben Moglen
• Eric S. Raymond

Other leading personalities

• Rick Adams
• Eric Allman
• Brian Behlendorf
• Keith Bostic
• Alan Cox
• Miguel de Icaza
• Theo de Raadt
• Jim Gettys
• Jon Hall
• Jordan Hubbard
• Lynne Jolitz
• William Jolitz
• Rasmus Lerdorf
• Marshall Kirk McKusick
• Bram Moolenaar
• Ian Murdock
• Tim O'Reilly
• Keith Packard
• Brian Paul
• Bruce Perens
• Bob Scheifler
• Mark Shuttleworth
• Richard Stallman
• Linus Torvalds
• Andrew Tridgell
• Guido van Rossum
• Larry Wall

See also

• Book
• Category
• Commons
• Portal

External links

• The Free Software Definition
• Transcripts about Free Software by FSFE
• Free Software Magazine, which bills itself as "a free magazine for the free software world."
• Free cultural works definition
• Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!, analysis of the advantages of OSS/FS by David A. Wheeler.
• FLOSSWorld - Free/Libre/Open-Source Software: Worldwide impact study, to find out more about the recently announced European Union funded study.
• Software Freedom: An Introduction, by Robert J. Chassell