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<h1>Current Projects</h1>
 

	
 
<p>Conservancy is currently home to thirty-nine member projects.</p>
 

	
 
<h2><a href="http://argouml.tigris.org/">ArgoUML</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>ArgoUML is the leading open source UML modeling tool and includes
 
support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams. It runs on any Java platform
 
and is available in ten languages. See the feature list for more details.</p>
 

	
 
<h2><a href="http://bongo-project.org/">Bongo</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>The Bongo Project is creating fun and simple mail, calendaring and
 
contacts software: on top of a standards-based server stack; we're
 
innovating fresh and interesting web user interfaces for managing
 
personal communications. Bongo is providing an entirely free software
 
solution which is less concerned with the corporate mail scenario and
 
much more focused on how people want to organize their lives.</p>
 

	
 
<h2><a href="http://www.boost.org/">Boost</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.</p>
 

	
 
<p>Boost emphasizes libraries that work well with the C++ Standard
 
  Library.  Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable
 
  across a broad spectrum of applications.  The Boost license encourages
 
  both commercial and non-commercial use.</p>
 

	
 
<p>Boost aims to establish &ldquo;existing practice&rdquo; and provide
 
reference implementations so that Boost libraries are suitable for
 
eventual standardization. Ten Boost libraries are already included in the
 
C++ Standards Committee's Library Technical Report (TR1) as a step toward
 
becoming part of a future C++ Standard. More Boost libraries are proposed
 
for the upcoming TR2.</p>
 

	
 
<h2><a href="https://www.bro.org/">Bro Network Security Monitor</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>Bro provides a comprehensive platform for network traffic analysis, with a
 
particular focus on semantic security monitoring at scale. While often
 
compared to classic intrusion detection/prevention systems, Bro takes a quite
 
different approach by providing users with a flexible framework that
 
facilitates customized, in-depth monitoring far beyond the capabilities of
 
traditional systems. With initial versions in operational deployment during
 
the mid '90s already, Bro finds itself grounded in more than 20 years of
 
research.</p>
 

	
 
<h2><a href="http://buildbot.net/">Buildbot</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>
 
Buildbot is a freely-licensed framework which enables software
 
developers to automate software build, test, and release processes for their
 
software projects.  First released in 2003, Buildbot is used by leading 
 
software projects around the world to automate all aspects of their 
 
software development cycle. </p>
 

	
 
<h2 id="busybox"><a href="https://busybox.net/">BusyBox</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a
 
single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the
 
utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The
 
utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their
 
full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included
 
provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU
 
counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any
 
small or embedded system.</p>
 

	
 
<p>BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited
 
resources in mind. It is also extremely modular so you can easily
 
include or exclude commands (or features) at compile time. This makes
 
it easy to customize your embedded systems. To create a working
 
system, just add some device nodes in /dev, a few configuration files
 
in /etc, and a Linux kernel.</p>
 

	
 

	
 
<h2><a href="http://darcs.net/">Darcs</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>Darcs is a distributed revision control system written in Haskell. In
 
Darcs, every copy of your source code is a full repository, which allows for
 
full operation in a disconnected environment, and also allows anyone with
 
read access to a Darcs repository to easily create their own branch and
 
modify it with the full power of Darcs' revision control. Darcs is based on
 
an underlying theory of patches, which allows for safe reordering and
 
merging of patches even in complex scenarios. For all its power, Darcs
 
remains a very easy to use tool for every day use because it follows the
 
principle of keeping simple things simple.  Darcs is free software
 
licensed under the GNU GPL.</p>
 

	
 
<h2><a href="/news/2015/aug/17/debian/">Debian Copyright Aggregation Project</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>The Debian Copyright Aggregation Project offers contributors to
 
  the <a href="https://www.debian.org">Debian project</a> the optional
 
  opportunity, regarding their works contributed to Debian, to assign
 
  copyrights or sign a license enforcement agreement (which delegates to
 
  Conservancy the authority of license enforcement).  The Project also
 
  creates an ongoing relationship between Conservancy and Debian, wherein
 
  Conservancy offers Debian its expertise and advice on software licensing,
 
  enforcement, and related issues.</p>
 

	
 
<h2><a href="https://evergreen-ils.org/">Evergreen</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>The Evergreen Project develops an open source ILS (integrated library
 
system) used by hundreds of libraries across the world. The software, also
 
called Evergreen, is used by libraries to provide their public catalog
 
interface as well as to manage back-of-house operations such as
 
circulation (checkouts and checkins), acquisition and cataloging of
 
library materials, and sharing resources among groups of libraries and
 
consortia on the same Evergreen system.  Evergreen is designed to be
 
scalable and supports library operations ranging from a small high school
 
to large state-wide consortia.  Evergreen is released under
 
the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GPLv2</a>-or-later.</p>
 

	
 
<h2><a href="http://www.gevent.org/">Gevent</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>Gevent is a fast, coroutine-based networking library for Python.
 
Gevent is used in network applications, including servers that scale
 
up to tens thousands of connections but without the complexity usually
 
associated with event-driven architecture.</p>
 

	
 
<p>Gevent provides light-weight &ldquo;green&rdquo; threads with a similar
 
interface as the standard &ldquo;threading&rdquo; and
 
&ldquo;multiprocessing&rdquo; packages.  The library includes a DNS
 
resolver, a WSGI server, a monkey patching utility to make 3rd party
 
protocol implementations cooperative and support for SSL sockets.</p>
 

	
 
<h2><a href="https://git-scm.com/">Git</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>Git is a free and open source distributed version control system
 
  designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with
 
  speed and efficiency.</p>
 

	
 
<p>Every Git clone is a full-fledged repository with complete history and
 
  full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access
 
  or a central server. Branching and merging are fast and easy to do.</p>
 

	
 
<p>Git is used for version control of files, much like tools such as
 
  Mercurial, Bazaar, Subversion, CVS, Perforce, and Visual SourceSafe.</p>
 

	
 
<h2><a href="https://www.godotengine.org/">Godot Engine</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>Godot is an advanced, feature packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D game
 
engine. It provides a huge set of common tools, so you can just focus on
 
making your game without reinventing the wheel. Godot is is completely Free
 
and Open Source under the MIT License.</p>
 

	
 
<h2><a href="/linux-compliance/">GPL Compliance Project for Linux Developers</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>The GPL Compliance Project for Linux Developers is comprised of
 
copyright holders in the kernel, Linux, who have contributed to Linux
 
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://brew.sh/">Homebrew</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>Homebrew is a software package manager for Apple's OS X operating 
 
system. Homebrew installs the free and open source software that OS X 
 
users need that Apple didn't install by default.</p>
 

	
 
<h2><a href="https://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="https://kallithea-scm.org/">Kallithea</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>Kallithea is a free software source code management system supporting two
 
leading version control systems, Mercurial and Git.  Kallithea hosts your
 
code, manages access control lists and provides an easy web interface to the
 
version control system of your choice.</p>
 
  
 
<h2><a href="https://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.luxrender.net/">LuxRender</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>LuxRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine. Based on
 
state of the art algorithms, LuxRender simulates the flow of light
 
according to physical equations, thus producing realistic images of
 
photographic quality.</p>
 

	
 
<h2><a href="https://www.mercurial-scm.org/">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.metalinker.org/">Metalink</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>Metalink is dedicated to improving downloads. Metalink makes it much
 
easier for people &mdash; especially those in areas with inferior Internet
 
connections &mdash; to download Open Source and Free Software. Metalink
 
increases the effectiveness and efficiency of downloads by combining the
 
speed, bandwidth distribution, and redundancy of an optimized hybrid
 
mirror/peer-to-peer network, without any questions of legality, integrity,
 
or safety.</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://www.opentripplanner.org/">OpenTripPlanner</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>
 
OpenTripPlanner is the leading open source platform for multimodal trip
 
itinerary planning and network analysis.  Launched in 2009, OpenTripPlanner
 
has since attracted a thriving community of users and developers, with live
 
deployments now found in twelve countries.  OpenTripPlanner provides a
 
multimodal trip planner allowing users to plan trips using a variety of
 
transportation modes. Additionally, OpenTripPlanner has features for
 
transportation analysis, including measures of mobility and accessibility.</p>
 

	
 
<h2><a href="https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/">Outreachy</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>Outreachy helps people from groups underrepresented in free and open
 
source software get involved by providing a supportive community for
 
newcomers to contribute to throughout the year, and by offering focused
 
internship opportunities twice a year with many free software organizations.
 
</p>
 

	
 
<h2><a href="https://phpmyadmin.net/">phpMyAdmin</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>
 
phpMyAdmin is a free and open source web interface for the MySQL and
 
MariaDB database systems. Frequently used operations
 
(managing databases, tables, columns, relations, indexes, users,
 
permissions, etc) can be performed via the user interface, while you
 
still have the ability to directly execute any SQL statement.</p>
 

	
 
<p>Since its first release in September 1998, phpMyAdmin has been adopted
 
by many web host providers, and has translations underway for more than
 
seventy languages.</p>
 

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

	
 
<p>The PyPy project aims to provide:</p>
 

	
 
<ul>
 
<li>a common translation and support framework for producing
 
implementations of dynamic languages, emphasizing 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>
 

	
 
<h2><a href="http://qemu.org">QEMU</a></h2>
 
<p> QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and
 
        virtualizer. When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and
 
        programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different
 
        machine (e.g. your own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves
 
        very good performance. When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near
 
        native performances by executing the guest code directly on the host
 
        CPU. QEMU supports
 
 virtualization when executing under the Xen hypervisor or using the
 
        KVM kernel module in Linux. When using KVM, QEMU can virtualize x86,
 
        server and embedded PowerPC, and S390 guests.</p>
 

	
 
<h2><a href="https://www.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
 
System z, Solaris, Mac OS X, and OpenVMS, among others. It is
 
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
 
&ldquo;IDE&rdquo;, a recording and playback mechanism,
 
&ldquo;WebDriver&rdquo; and &ldquo;RC&rdquo; which provide APIs for
 
browser automation in a wide variety of languages, and &ldquo;Grid&rdquo;,
 
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="https://www.spec-ops.io/">Spec-Ops</a></h2>
 

	
 
<p>Spec-Ops' mission is to identify critical open standards activities 
 
and move them along. Spec-Ops puts experts in the room who understand 
 
the technology, who know about the process of creating standards, and 
 
who have no specific personal or corporate agenda &mdash; then lets them get 
 
on with it. Spec-Ops also develops free and open source software 
 
(licensed under BSD-style licenses) to test and implement these 
 
standards, in order to speed adoption and ensure their long term 
 
viability and success.</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="https://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&#35;, 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="https://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="https://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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