The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows!

The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows!

(24/12/2005): OSSwin now also has a separate games page. Go check it out and please promote the organization of an Open-Source-only LAN-party in your neighbourhood!

• Audio editing tools
• Business Software
• CAD software
• CD Writing
• Compression/ZIP
• Databases
• Dictionaries
• Drivers/Hardware
• Emulators
• Encyclopedia
• Filesharing
• FTP clients
• Firewall & NAT
• Graphics
• Instant Messaging
• Internet Voice chat
• IRC clients
• Mail & News
• Media Players (audio)
• Media Players (video)
• Media Players (codecs)
• MC303 utilities
• Networking tools
• NTP clients
• Office tools
• PostScript viewers
• Programming
• Remote access
• Sciences and Math
• Security, Privacy, Protection,...
• Server software
• SCP (SecureCoPy) clients
• Stream Downloaders
• Text editors
• Utilities
• Video capture/processing
• VJ Software
• Web browsers
• Webcam
• Web editors
• Webgrabbers
• X-servers
• Others

Please also report broken links to the osswin-users mailinglist, and if you really like this list and want to keep me motivated, then just send me something from my wishlist or my wanted computerparts list :-)

Cheers,
Bart Vandewoestyne

Audio editing tools

• CDex [GNU GPL]
• Ogg Vorbis
• Musepack [GNU LGPL, BSD]
• Audacity [GNU GPL]
• CD-DA X-Tractor [GNU GPL]
• LAME [GNU LGPL]:
  • Official site
  • http://www./smpman/mp3/
• AudioCoding
• Mp3splt [GNU GPL]
• Mp3Wrap [GNU GPL]
• Alba Extractor [GNU GPL]
• MIDI Backup Utility [GNU GPL]
• PeerCast [GNU GPL]
• GNUMP3d [GNU GPL]
• Mp3 Tag Tools [GNU GPL]
• MusicBrainz Tagger [GNU GPL]
• GramoFile [GNU GPL]
• FFmpeg [GNU LGPL]
• JAZZ++ [GNU GPL]
• Mixere [GNU GPL]
• Open Sound World [Other/Proprietary License]
• split3pm [No license]

Business Software

• Sequoia ERP [MPL]
• SugarCRM [MPL]
• webERP [GNU GPL]
• Open For Business [MIT]
• ERP5 [GNU GPL, GFDL, GPDL, GPPL]
• GNU Enterprise [GNU GPL]
• Compiere ERP and CRM [MPL]
• SQL-Ledger [GNU GPL]
• osCommerce [GNU GPL]
• Quasar Accounting [GNU GPL]
• TurboCash [GNU GPL]
• GLPI [GNU GPL]

CAD software and Electronic Design Automation (EDA)

• BRL-CAD [BSD/GNU (L)GPL]
• PythonCAD [GNU GPL?]
• XCircuit [Artistic License]
• gEDA [GNU GPL]
• Sailcut CAD [GNU GPL]
• TinyCAD [GNU LGPL]

CD Writing

• cdrtfe (cdrtools Front End) [GNU GPL]
• CDRDAO [GNU GPL]
• CDRECORD
• CDRTools Win32 binaries [GNU GPL]
• Cdrtools with SPTI
• SoftCDWriter
• jCDWriter [GNU GPL]
• Dirk Paehl‘s site (he claims it‘s open source, but I can‘t find the source anywhere... probably it‘s freeware...)

Compression/ZIP

• jzip.org [GNU GPL]
• 7-Zip [GNU LGPL]
• Zzip [GNU GPL]
• Info-ZIP
• GreenEye (can anybody provide me the official GreenEye link?)
• BiGZiP [GNU GPL or LGPL]

Databases

• Ingres [CA Trusted Open Source License]
• MySQL [GNU GPL]
• PostgreSQL [BSD]
• DBDesigner [GNU GPL]
• Database Design Tool [GNU GPL]
• Firebird [InterBase Public License]
• SAP DB [GNU GPL and GNU LGPL]
• FutureSQL [GNU GPL]
• InterBase [InterBase Public License]
• OpenOfficeorg BASE [GNU GPL/LGPL and SISSL]

Dictionaries

• jDictionary [LGPL]
• Podo dictionary [GPL]
• JaLingo [???]
• Freedict:
• Hyperdictionary
• Ergane
• ITRANS [???]

Drivers/Hardware

• WDM bt848/bt878 video adquisition driver [LGPL]
• RadeonTweaker [GNU GPL]

Emulators

Amiga:

• WinUAE [???]

Atari:

• Stella [GNU GPL]

DOS:

• DOSBox [GNU GPL]

Sega Master System:

• SMS Plus/SDL [GNU GPL]

PowerPC:

• PearPC [GNU GPL]

Sega Genesis / Sega CD / Sega 32X:

• Gens [GNU GPL]

Sega Dreamcast:

• Swirly [GNU GPL]

Sega Saturn:

• Project Titan [GNU GPL]

Super Nintendo

• ZSNES [GNU GPL]

Other

• QEMU [GNU GPL/GNU LGPL/MIT/BSD]

Encyclopedia

• Wikipedia

Filesharing

• MLdonkey cores:
  • Spiralvoice‘s cores
  • Whitefrost‘s cores
  • mldonkey ease
• MLdonkey GUI‘s:
  • sancho [???]
  • G2gui [GNU GPL]
  • MLDonkey Watch [GNU GPL]
• The Circle [???]
• WASTE [GNU GPL]

Ares

• Ares P2P [GNU GPL]

BitTorrent

• BitTorrent [MIT license]
• BT++ [GNU GPL]
• MLdonkey [GNU GPL]
• TorrentSpy [MIT license]
• Azureus [GNU GPL]
• ABC [Python Software Foundation License]
• Shareaza [GNU GPL]
• BitTornado [MIT]
• G3 Torrent [MIT]