Links to Other Free Software Sites

To help promote knowledge of free software that isn't GNU software released under the auspices of the GNU Project, we have collected the following links to other web sites that contain free software, or are directly related to the issue of free software.

We do not have links to web sites of the well-known GNU/Linux system distributions, or to the well-known BSD system distributions, because all those sites explicitly describe, and facilitate access to, various nonfree programs. We would be glad to know of other free software web sites that we could link to here.

The FSF is not responsible for the contents of other web sites, or how up-to-date they are.

Free GNU/Linux distributions

We maintain information about fully-free GNU/Linux distributions.

Other free operating systems

We maintain information about fully-free system distributions that are not GNU/Linux.

Collections of free software

Free software documentation

The documentation at these sites may be older than the latest versions distributed by GNU.

  • Floss Manuals, a collection of free manuals for free software, published before 2015. Note: The page to view more recent publications requires nonfree JavaScript, so we don't link to it.
  • GNUjdoc is a central archive of Japanese translations of GNU documents.

Free knowledge & free culture

  • Wikipedia.org —The Free Encyclopedia.
  • H2O Open Casebook — A project by the Harvard Law School Library that publishes casebooks and other course materials in the field of legal education. The H2O platform is free software, released under the AGPLv3 license. However, the materials are published under CC BY-NC-SA, a license rendered nonfree by the ”NonCommercial“ limitation (see an explanation.
  • OurProject.org —Free Software & Free Knowledge for a Free Society (mostly in Spanish).
  • Mutopia —collects and distributes free music, and information about free music.

Organizations related to free software

Companies that support free software development, and exclusively free software development

Organizations that work for freedom in computer development and electronic communications

  • OpenCores

    The OpenCores project is a volunteer group interested in developing hardware, with a similar ethos to the free software movement: information on using the hardware must be available; the design of the hardware must be available; design software for hardware must be available. Note: The website describes the project by using the biased and confusing term “Intellectual Property,” which the GNU Project does not recommend.

  • Lumen

    Lumen, formerly Chilling Effects, is a collection point for cease and desist notices concerning online activity—we invite visitors to enter C&Ds they have received or sent. The website collects the C&Ds in a searchable database and hyperlinks them to explanations of the legal issues.

  • League for Programming Freedom

    The League for Programming Freedom was an organization that opposed software patents and user interface copyrights. It is inactive now. Please join our End Software Patents campaign!

  • Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

    A non-profit, non-partisan organization working in the public interest to protect fundamental civil liberties, including privacy and freedom of expression, in the arena of computers and the Internet. It does not, however, advocate users' freedom to redistribute and change software.

  • Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

    A public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.

  • Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)

    Dissolved in 2013. It was a public interest alliance of computer scientists and others concerned about the impact of computer technology on society. They worked to influence decisions regarding the development and use of computers because those decisions have far-reaching consequences and reflect our basic values and priorities.

  • American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

    The American Civil Liberties Union is the nation's foremost advocate of individual rights—litigating, legislating, and educating the public on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States.

  • Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC)

    A coalition that includes among its members the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Human Rights Watch, the Internet Society, Privacy International, the Association des Utilisateurs d'Internet, and other civil liberties and human rights organizations. They advocate the prohibition of censorship in online communications, and insist that free expression online should not be restricted by indirect means such as excessively restrictive governmental or private controls over computer hardware or software, telecommunications infrastructure, or other essential components of the Internet.

  • Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA)

    A non-profit national organisation representing Internet users concerned with online freedoms and rights.

Hosting

These sites provide hosting for free software packages, focused on source code. We don't list other well-known hosting sites since they do not fully comply with the GNU Ethical Repository Criteria. As usual, contact us at <[email protected]> if you have suggestions for the list.

  • Savannah, a hosting site provided by GNU for both GNU and non-GNU packages. More info.
  • Puszcza (pronounced “push-cha”), the hosting site maintained by long-time GNU volunteer Sergey Poznyakoff in Ukraine.

News about free software

These sites offer updated news about GNU and other free software.