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[[File:Categories of free and nonfree software.svg|thumb|Categories of free and nonfree software]]
Free as in "freedom", Free Software means software that's been licensed in a way that guarantees certain freedoms, namely those to use, modify and redistribute the software without asking requiring to be paid for or otherwise given legal permission.
Free as in "freedom", Free Software means software that's been licensed in a way that guarantees certain freedoms, namely those to use, modify and redistribute the software without asking requiring to be paid for or otherwise given legal permission.


See: http://fsf.org
See: http://fsf.org


== Rough notes ==
[[Category: Glossary]]
Examples
 
* Making a brochure (OSP)
* Imagemagick
* Protocols: OSC / UDP, Kinect (rental)
* Audio
* Evo Tutorials: Processing ()
* Evo Tutorials: Kinect (3D Input)
* Evo Tutorials: Animata (3D Models driven by (OSC) data) ... http://animata.kibu.hu/
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* NLTK
* lxml
 
== Applications ==
 
* Alchemy http://al.chemy.org/ (Drawing Sketching)
* Ardour (10 speaker setup)
* Inkscape
* Blender
* gimp
* kdenlive
* Scribus
* [http://mypaint.intilinux.com/ MyPaint]
* Audacity
 
== Formats ==
* [[SVG]] - Scalable Vector Graphics (vector format)
* [[PNG]] - Portable Network Graphics (bitmap format)
* IXR (multiple "raw" images that are composed to adjust)
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska Matroska]
* OGG: A multimedia "container" (like Quicktime or AVI), that can hold audio/video
* Webm: A particular version of Matroska + VP8 video codec for publishing video online (contrast with MPEG4/H264)
 
== Command line tools (& Libraries) ==
 
* [[ImageMagick]]: the swiss army knife of images
* [[sox]]: Sound Exchange -- tools for manipulating and generating sound files
* [[ffmpeg]] tool for encoding and manipulating audio / video
* [[gstreamer]]
* [[melt]] / mlt
* [[midge]]: Music notation (in a special text markup) to melodic MIDI
* festival: Tools to convert text to speech (wav file), the tool is ''text2wave''
* [[psutils]]: utilities for manipulating PostScript files!
* [[youtube-dl]]: youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites

Latest revision as of 23:08, 24 November 2021

Categories of free and nonfree software

Free as in "freedom", Free Software means software that's been licensed in a way that guarantees certain freedoms, namely those to use, modify and redistribute the software without asking requiring to be paid for or otherwise given legal permission.

See: http://fsf.org

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