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GNU Spotlight. About The Free Software Directory ( FSD, or simply Directory) is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). We catalog useful free software that runs under free operating systems — particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants.

Licenses are verified for each and every program listed in this directory. We also warn for software with. If you are looking for a full operating system for your computer, please see our list of. For software only available on non-GNU/Linux operating systems see:, and (which contains a small percent of software with which are prominently warned about prior to install). The FSF provides this directory as a service to the free software community. To help support this project. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

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