Copyfree: Projects

Development

A number of projects that use copyfree licensing are worthy of support, whether that support is advocacy, development, money, or other forms of aid. If you're interested in advancing the popularity and influence of copyfree policy, you may want to have a look at the following projects for ideas of places you can help out:

Advocacy

• Copyfree: Advocacy
• Software Liberation Front

Software

Copyfree Initiative Projects

• CmpText: a text comparison tool used to measure license similarity

General

• BSD Fund

Operating Systems

• AerieBSD
• DesktopBSD
• DragonFly BSD
• FreeBSD: Contributing to FreeBSD
• MINIX 3
• NetBSD
• OpenBSD
• PC-BSD

Porting and Platform Compatibility

• bringing BSD-licensed Fab@Home to BSD-licensed OSes
• Chromium -- BSD-licensed browser that could benefit from more developer support on BSD Unix platforms

Replacements for Copy(right/left) Tools

• BSD-licensed ELF Toolchain
• BSD-licensed Text Processing Tools
• Clang/LLVM support on FreeBSD -- Copyfree-licensed C/C++/ObjC Compiler: Building FreeBSD with clang/llvm
• Portable C Compiler -- Copyfree-licensed C Compiler

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