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 edit
Free software by type edit
Free and open-source software packages (by type)
Free software products edit
- List of free software project directories
- List of formerly proprietary software
- List of Linux distributions
- List of open source software packages
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
Free software movement edit
- Alternative terms for free software
- Debian Social Contract
- Free-software licence
- Gratis versus Libre
- Open source
- Open standard
- Long-term support
- Software Package Data Exchange
Challenges edit
- Proprietary software
- Proprietary device driver ("binary blobs")
- Free and open-source graphics device driver
- Proprietary firmware
- Secure boot
- Digital rights management
- License proliferation
- Software patents and free software
- SCO–Linux controversies
- Mozilla software rebranded by Debian
- Open-source software security
- Trusted Computing
Free software licenses edit
Specific licenses edit
- 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 edit
- Comparison of free and open-source software licenses
- Contributor License Agreement
- 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 edit
- Free Software Foundation
- SCO-Linux controversies
- Open Source Initiative
- History of GNU
- History of Haiku
- History of Linux
- History of the Linux kernel
- Mozilla
- Timeline of free and open-source software
Events edit
Organizations edit
- .NET Foundation
- Android Open Source Project
- Apache Software Foundation
- Blender Foundation
- The Document Foundation
- Eclipse Foundation
- F Sharp Software Foundation
- Free Software Foundation
- 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
- Outercurve Foundation
- Software Freedom Conservancy
- SourceForge
- Symbian Foundation
- X.Org Foundation
- Xiph.Org Foundation
- XMPP Standards Foundation
Persons influential in the free software movement edit
Well known scholars edit
Other leading personalities edit
- 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 edit
External links edit
Free Software at Wikipedia's sister projects
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
News from Wikinews
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
- 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
- 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