under its license, the GPLv2. These copyright holders have formally asked

Conservancy to engage in compliance efforts for their copyrights in the

Linux kernel.</p>

<h2><a href="http://www.inkscape.org/">Inkscape</a></h2>

<p>Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities

similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the

open-standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape's

main goal is to create a powerful and convenient drawing tool fully

compliant with XML, SVG, and CSS standards.</p>

<p>In contrast to raster (bitmap) graphics editors such as Photoshop or

Gimp, Inkscape stores its graphics in a vector format. Vector graphics

is a resolution-independent description of the actual shapes and

objects that you see in the image. This description is then used to

determine how to plot each line and curve at any resolution or zoom

level.</p>

<h2><a href="http://www.k-3d.org">K-3D</a></h2>

<p>K-3D is the free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling, animation, and rendering

system for GNU/Linux, MacOSX, and Windows operating systems. K-3D is based

on a powerful Visualization Pipeline that enables procedural modeling and

a robust plugin architecture, and is designed to scale to the needs of

professional artists.</p>

<h2><a href="http://kohanaframework.org">Kohana</a></h2>

<p>Kohana is an elegant HMVC PHP5 framework that provides a rich set of

components for building web applications.  It requires very little

configuration, fully supports UTF-8 and I18N, and provides many of the

tools that a developer needs within a highly flexible system. The

integrated class auto-loading, cascading filesystem, highly consistent

API, and easy integration with vendor libraries make it viable for any

project, large or small.</p>

<h2><a href="http://libbraille.org/">Libbraille</a></h2>

<p>Libbraille is a computer shared library which makes it possible to

easily develop software for Braille displays. It provides a simple API

to write text on the display, directly draw dots, or get the value of

keys pressed on the Braille keyboard. Libbraille supports a wide range

of Braille displays with a serial or USB connection and can

auto-detect most of them. Libbraille supports the terminals of the

following manufacturers: Alva, Baum, Blazie Engineering, EuroBraille,

HandyTech, Hermes, ONCE, Papenmeier, Pulse Data, TechniBraille and

Tieman.</p>

<h2><a href="http://www.mifos.org">Mifos</a></h2>

<p>Mifos is an award-winning Open Source software platform for microfinance,

leveraging a modern stack of Open Source technology frameworks to provide

microfinance institutions with the scalability and flexibility needed to

grow. In 2009, Mifos was awarded with the Duke's Choice Award for Best

Java Technology for the Open Source Community.</p>

<h2><a href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/">Mercurial</a></h2>

<p>Mercurial is a fast, lightweight Source Control Management system

which can track revisions to software during development.  Since its

conception in April 2005, Mercurial has been adopted by many projects

for revision control, including Xen, One Laptop Per Child, and the

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA).  Mercurial runs on Unix-like systems, Mac

OS X, and Windows computers, and it is licensed under the GNU General

Public License.</p>

<h2><a href="http://www.openchange.org/">OpenChange</a></h2>

<p>OpenChange aims to provide a portable Open Source implementation of

  Microsoft Exchange Server and Exchange protocols.  Exchange is a

  groupware server designed to work with Microsoft Outlook, and providing

  features such as a messaging server, shared calendars, contact

  databases, public folders, notes and tasks.</p>

<h2><a href="http://pypy.org/">PyPy</a></h2>

<p>The PyPy project aims to provide:

<ul>

<li>a common translation and support framework for producing

implementations of dynamic languages, emphasising a clean

separation between language specification and implementation

aspects.</li>

<li>a compliant, flexible and fast implementation of the Python Language

using the above framework to enable new advanced features without having

to encode low level details into it.</li></ul>

</p>

<h2><a href="http://us1.samba.org/samba/">Samba</a></h2>

<p>Samba is a FOSS suite that provides seamless file and print

services to SMB/CIFS clients, namely, to Microsoft Windows. Samba is

freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows

for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based

clients.  Samba is software that can be run on a platform other than

Microsoft Windows. For example, Samba runs on Unix, GNU/Linux, IBM

standard on virtually all distributions of GNU/Linux and is commonly

included as a basic system service on other UNIX-based systems as

well. Samba uses the TCP/IP protocol that is installed on the host

server.</p>

<p>One of the key goals of the project is to remove barriers to

interoperability. Samba is a software package that gives network

administrators flexibility and freedom in setup, configuration, choice

of systems, and equipment. Samba is released under the GPL.</p>

<h2><a href="http://seleniumhq.org">Selenium</a></h2>

<p>Selenium is a suite of tools for browser automation. It is composed of

“IDE”, a recording and playback mechanism,

“WebDriver” and “RC” which provide APIs for

browser automation in a wide variety of languages, and “Grid”,

which allows many tests using the APIs to be run in parallel. It works

with most browsers, including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome,

Safari and Opera.</p>

<h2><a href="http://squeak.org/">Squeak</a></h2>

<p>Squeak is a modern, open source, full-featured implementation of

the powerful Smalltalk programming language and environment. Squeak is

highly-portable - even its virtual machine is written entirely in

Smalltalk making it easy to debug, analyze, and change. Squeak is the

vehicle for a wide range of projects from multimedia applications,

educational platforms to commercial web application development.</p>

<h2><a href="http://sugarlabs.org">Sugar Labs</a></h2>

<p>Sugar is a learning platform that reinvents how computers are used for

education.  Sugar's focus on sharing, criticism, and exploration is

grounded in the culture of free software.  Sugar Labs' mission is to

produce, distribute and support the use of the Sugar learning platform.

Sugar Labs supports the community of educators and software developers who

want to extend the platform.  Sugar is a community project: under the

Sugar Labs umbrella hundreds of software developers and thousands of

educators work together to build, disseminate, and support Sugar.<p>

<h2><a href="http://surveyos.sourceforge.net/">SurveyOS</a></h2>

<p>The Survey Open Source (SurveyOS) Project is a non-profit project of

the Software Freedom Conservancy dedicated to fostering cooperation

between land surveyors and GIS professionals through the development of

open source software and open technology standards. The SurveyOS Project

currently devotes programming efforts and source code to the open source

desktop GIS program known as OpenJUMP. It also dedicates a set of AutoLISP

source code via the GPL that can be used to add surveying and geospatial

functionality to other software.</p>

<h2><a href="http://www.swig.org/">SWIG</a></h2>

<p>SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C

and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages.  SWIG is used

with different types of languages including common scripting languages

such as Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl and Ruby. The list of supported languages

also includes C#, Java, Lua, Octave and R amongst others. SWIG is most

commonly used to create high-level interpreted or compiled programming

environments, user interfaces, and as a tool for testing and prototyping

C/C++ software.</p>

<h2><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/">Twisted</a></h2>

<p>Twisted is an event-based engine for Internet applications, written in

Python. Twisted supports TCP, SSL and TLS, UDP, Unix sockets, multicast,

and serial ports. It also includes a Web server, an SMTP/POP3 server, a

telnet server, an SSH server, an IRC server, a DNS server, and of course

APIs for creating new protocols. It supports integration with GTK+ 2, Qt,

Tkinter, wxPython, Mac OS X (PyObjC) and Win32 event loops.</p>

<h2><a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uCLibc</a></h2>

<p>uClibc (pronounced yew-see-lib-see) is a C library

for developing embedded Linux systems. It is much smaller than the GNU

C Library, but nearly all applications supported by glibc also work

perfectly with uClibc. Porting applications from glibc to uClibc

typically involves just recompiling the source code. uClibc even

supports shared libraries and threading. It currently runs on standard

Linux and MMU-less (also known as uClinux) systems with support for

alpha, ARM, cris, i386, i960, h8300, m68k, mips/mipsel, PowerPC, SH,

SPARC, and v850 processors.</p>

<h2><a href="http://www.winehq.org/">Wine</a></h2>

<p>Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of

X and Unix.  It is a compatibility layer for running Windows

programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a

completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API

consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use

native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a

development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as

a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on

x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris</p>

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