GNUmedia/Software Libre

Computer technology was born out of a community of collaboration and knowledge sharing. In the early 1980s the practice of sharing efforts and ideas was losing momentum. Richard Stallman, taking the initiative to restore the culture he endeared, founded the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation.

GNU and FSF are cornerstones of modern Copyleft. Copyleft intends to remind persons of freedoms which Copyright takes away and allow them to share these liberties with others. Software Libre is so named to remind us of the distinction between financially free (gratis) and freedoms, which are granted (libre.)

License Choice

Most software users receive comes packaged under various EULAs [End-User License Agreements.] All of these applications are released under the GNU's Not Unix General Public License. The GNU GPL is a liberating license designed [and recently re-designed] to promote software freedom. The freedoms at stake are individuals' ability to access software, examine it's structure, modify the structure to suit one's needs and give a copy of [or redistribute] the software to a friend or person in need.

It is a principal of GNUmedia to promote, first and foremost, licenses which preserve the freedoms which they allow.

Those of you familiar with OSS [Open Source Software] and OSS licenses might wonder why GNUmedia is not promoting software, on this page, which is released under other licenses - even GPL compatible licenses.

Further reading:
 * Why not LGPL? by Free Software Foundation
 * Freedom or Power? by Bradley M. Kuhn and Richard M. Stallman

The following tools are protected by the gnu_gpl.

Animation and Illustration
Name	Short Description	Linux	Macintosh	Windows
 * Apophysis	Fractal design and animation interface.	 	 	♥
 * Blender3D	3D content creation suite.	♥ 	♥ 	♥
 * Inkscape	Vector Illistration with Jabber integration.	♥ 	♥ 	♥
 * Pencil Sketching Design software including software GUI design. ♥ 	♥ 	♥
 * Synfig	Film-Quality 2D Vector Animation	♥ 	♥ 	♥

Audio
Name	Short Description	Linux	Macintosh	Windows
 * Aldrin	Modular music sequencer/tracker.	♥
 * Ardour	Digital Audio Workstation 	♥ 	♥
 * Audacity	Multi-Track Recording 	♥ 	♥ 	♥
 * GNU Solfege	Smarten your ears.	♥ 	♥ 	♥
 * Hydrogen	Advanced beat sequencer.	♥ 	♥ 	♥
 * LilyPond	Sheet music layout(ASCII input)	♥ 	♥ 	♥
 * LMMS	Linux MultiMedia Studio	♥
 * OpenMPT	Tracker interface music sequencing.	 	 	♥
 * Psycle	Modular music creation studio with tracker interface.	 	 	♥
 * Rosegarden	Audio/MIDI sequencer.	♥
 * ZynAddSubFX	Software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments.	♥ 	 	♥

Photography
Name	Short Description	Linux	Macintosh	Windows
 * digiKam	Photo organizer/tagger	♥
 * Eye of Gnome	Photo browser/viewer.	♥
 * The GIMP	GNU Image Manipulation Program	♥ 	♥ 	♥
 * Hugin	Panoramic photo stitcher.	♥ 	♥ 	♥

Video
Name	Short Description	Linux	Macintosh	Windows
 * Avidemux	Video cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.	♥ 	♥ 	♥
 * Gephex	Modular multimedia synthesis and manipulation.	♥ 	♥ 	♥
 * Cinelerra CV	Non-linear video editing.	♥
 * Jashaka	Hardware accelerate editing and effects system.	♥ 	♥ 	♥
 * Kdenlive	Open Source video for GNU/Linux	♥
 * Kino	Non-Linear Digital Video Editor.	♥
 * LiVES	Live Video Mixing Application	♥ 	♥ 	♥
 * WinFF	Video conversion tool.	♥ 	 	♥

Document Layout

 * Scribus
 * Lyx

Communications
Name	Short Description	Linux	Macintosh	Windows
 * Coccinella	A chat application with whiteboard.	♥ 	♥ 	♥
 * Ekiga	VoIP and video conferencing application.	♥ 	 	♥
 * Pidgin	Instant messaging client that supports many commonly used instant messaging protocols.	♥ 	♥ 	♥
 * Twinkle	Voice over IP and instant messaging communications using the Session Initiation Protocol.	♥
 * OpenWengo	A softphone which allows you to make free PC to PC video and voice calls, and to integrate all your IM contacts in one place.	♥ 	♥ 	♥

Media Players
Name	Short Description	Linux	Macintosh	Windows
 * Elisa	Media center solution designed to be simple for people not particularly familiar with computers.	♥
 * VLC media player	Highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats.	♥ 	♥ 	♥

Utilities
Name	Short Description	Linux	Macintosh	Windows
 * Agave	Color scheme creator.	♥
 * eXe	SCORM/e-learning content creation.	♥ 	♥ 	♥
 * Gobby	Collaborative text editor. Syntax highlighting.	♥ 	♥ 	♥
 * Purrr	Bulk file re-namer.	♥

Navigation
Name	Short Description	Linux	Macintosh	Windows
 * GpsDrive	A car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system.	♥
 * RoadMap	Car navigation system.	♥
 * Roadnav	open source street navigation solution	♥ 	♥ 	♥