Mise à jour de la base de données, veuillez patienter...

Participate in supporting the Directory by adding new entries and updating existing ones. We will be on IRC in the #fsf channel on irc.freenode.org.

Tens of thousands of people visit directory.fsf.org each month to discover free software. Each entry in the Directory contains a wealth of useful information, from basic category and descriptions, to providing detailed info about version control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing info that has been carefully checked by FSF staff and trained volunteers.

While the Directory has been and continues to be a great resource to the world for over a decade now, it has the potential to be a resource of even greater value. But it needs your help!

This week we'll be doing some cleaning up, focusing on entries that haven't had an update in a while. We are doing a great job at getting new packages listed, but if we don't take the time to go back and update older entries, the Directory risks becoming stale. Making sure entries are up to date is just as important as expanding the Directory, since an out-of-date download or listing isn't super useful. So, come join us this week in freshening up those golden oldies!

If you are eager to help, and you can't wait or are simply unable to make it onto IRC on Friday, our participation guide will provide you with all the information you need to get started on helping the Directory today! There are also weekly Directory Meeting pages that everyone is welcome to contribute to before, during, and after each meeting.

Participate in supporting the Directory by adding new entries and updating existing ones. We will be on IRC in the #fsf channel on irc.freenode.org.

Tens of thousands of people visit directory.fsf.org each month to discover free software. Each entry in the Directory contains a wealth of useful information, from basic category and descriptions, to providing detailed info about version control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing info that has been carefully checked by FSF staff and trained volunteers.

While the Directory has been and continues to be a great resource to the world for over a decade now, it has the potential of being a resource of even greater value. But it needs your help!

This week the Directory recognizes Bastielle Day in France. Back on this day in 1789 the storming of the Bastielle fortress marked the beginning of a revolution. Revolutions require organized action. With this in mind the theme of the Directory this week is software for organizing. This category covers software that can help bring together information, people, collections, and even wine. Come Friday let's eat cake while we improve the Directory.

If you are eager to help and you can't wait or are simply unable to make it onto IRC on Friday, our participation guide will provide you with all the information you need to get started on helping the Directory today! There are also weekly Directory Meeting pages that everyone is welcome to contribute to before, during, and after each meeting.

Every week free software activists from around the world come together in #fsf on irc.freenode.org to help improve the Free Software Directory. This recaps the work we accomplished at the Friday, July 7th, 2017 meeting.

This week we returned to new, focusing on adding new packages and celebrating our new extension enabling users to thank each other. Now when you come across a well made entry or useful update you can thank the user who added it via the history page. We thank sudoman for adding the feature. During the meeting we found a broken entry. We had imported it from the Debian repositories, but the robust work done there in cataloging the many licenses proved too much and the entry currently doesn't render. sudoman has what he thinks is a fix, so we should be implementing that soon. We are still looking for help on the import project, so make sure to join us in upcoming meetings to discuss joining.

While we hope to be able to add many new packages, sometimes entries have issues. Often a package will have a few bugs in its licensing, and this week saw no exception as we filed half a dozen issues with various projects. While the purpose of the Directory is to make finding free software easy, the review process has the benefit of helping projects keep their licensing in tip top shape.

If you would like to help update the Directory, meet with us every Friday in #fsf on irc.freenode.org from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC).

Tell the FCC that we need net neutrality

A free net is necessary for a free society, and free software cannot thrive in a world where access to the Internet is controlled by people who work hard every day to restrict our freedom. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Ajit Pai is looking to hand control of the Internet over to companies like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon, who are much more interested in their own profits than protecting your freedoms. Spread the word—tell your friends why we need to defend net neutrality today.

Net neutrality is the idea that the net should provide the same services to all of its users, without discriminatory practices like paywalls that restrict your access to specific sites, or throttled network speeds. Without network neutrality, you can't trust the Internet to connect you honestly to the sites you wish to talk with. You may be charged extra, hampered, or blocked entirely from sites that the Internet service provider (ISP) does not like. When it does allow you to communicate with a site, it may alter the data sent to and from the site.

Net neutrality is a Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) issue; it impacts the collaboration that makes free software possible; and it creates an unequal field of digital engagement in which there is no guaranteed way to make sure your freedoms are being respected.

With the support of large ISPs, Chairman Pai is looking to tear down the already fragile network neutrality in place.

Today, the Free Software Foundation joins Demand Progress, Fight for the Future, Free Press, and dozens of other organizations in an Internet-wide day of action to save net neutrality.

We all need unfettered access to the Internet. In the last 30 days, over 700,000 people have left comments on Docket 17-108 (the misleadingly named "Restoring Internet Freedom," which in truth is designed to inhibit Internet freedom). Docket 17-108 is the FCC proposal to slash Title II protections for net neutrality.

We really want you to send comments to the FCC. But they've joined the ranks of government agencies whose comment submission process requires running proprietary JavaScript on your computer. If you want to submit a comment without using their Web-based submission form, there is an option to use a public API to submit comments. You can read about other ways to contact the FCC on their website.

We're asking you to share this post with your friends. In the battle for Internet freedom, our best hope is having as many people as possible aware of the importance of net neutrality and the risk it is currently facing. Please post on social media, share this (and similar e-mails and blog posts) with your friends, or write your own messages. Tell the people in your life not just that net neutrality is important to you, but why. Grassroots organizing can make a difference, and you're an important part of that.

You can read more below about why we at the Free Software Foundation care about net neutrality.

Why does net neutrality matter?

DRM thrives without net neutrality

Media distribution giants that use Digital Restrictions Management and proprietary software to control what's on your computer have also been fighting for years to control the network. Without net neutrality, DRM-laden materials could be easier to access, while DRM-free competitors could be stuck in the slow lane. Web-based free software projects like GNU MediaGoblin could also suffer the slow treatment while competitors like YouTube shell out big bucks for speedier service. The bottom line: an Internet where the most powerful interests can pay for huge speed advantages could push smaller free software projects right off the map and make it harder for decentralized projects to flourish. That's not good for free software, and it's not good for other innovative voices for change in the digital world.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee recently ratified the inclusion of Encrypted Media Extensions (a form of DRM) into Web standards. While not all hope is lost, since member organizations still have time left to appeal the decision—this is an example of why net neutrality is so important. DRM is finding more footholds for itself on the Web, and we need to reinforce the protections we have against it.

Net neutrality and free software

Free software can't survive without net neutrality. Donald Robertson III, from the FSF Licensing team, explains why:

When the free software movement started decades ago, the primary means of sharing software was via physical media. While selling or lending tapes or disks helped build the fledgling movement, today we all expect to send and receive software via the Web. Whether you are downloading updates, pushing a patch back upstream, or even finding a new distro for your laptop, you rely on the Internet for access to software and documentation. Without net neutrality, all that could go away. The new distro that you would come to love wouldn't come into existence, because the volunteers creating it could not only be limited in their ability to share it with you, but they themselves could be limited in their ability to download the packages that comprise the operating system. We could of course all go back to sharing tapes and CDs, but the explosion in growth and development that rose along with the rise of the free Internet would be hindered. No one, except greedy telecoms, wants to go back in time twenty years to when getting free software involved a postage stamp.

It is impossible to enforce net neutrality without free software. Unless we're able to examine and study the software used to keep the net free, we're unable to ensure that it is actually respecting net neutrality. Similarly, without net neutrality, it is unlikely that ISPs will ever use freedom-respecting software.

Ian Kelling, of the FSF Tech Team, highlights the ways in which the ideologies of free software and net neutrality are related:

Free software enables us to have software that works for us, and developers of free software get to really dig deep on what is in the best interests of the user. ISPs, on the other hand, are acting for themselves, and there are many examples of them doing things that are clearly against their customers' interests. Net neutrality provides some basic rules of the road, and there are more ways we should make ISPs act in our interests. But we can't develop a better ISP like we can with free software.

Words from Richard Stallman, President of the FSF

25 years ago, there were so many ISPs that competition discouraged abuses. Since then, the US government has allowed so many mergers that competition between ISPs is almost nonexistent. It is no deterrent nowadays to abuses of any kind.

The FCC's network neutrality regulation does not go far enough. Full network neutrality means that the ISP cannot take note of which site you are communicating with, except under a specific court order aimed at you. But that is a battle for another day. Today we must defeat the attempt to abolish the limited network neutrality we already have.

Net neutrality as an international issue

Net neutrality is very much an international issue. There are the BEREC net neutrality guidelines in the European Union. Internet.org was rolled out in Zambia, which provides gratis Internet in exchange for allowing Facebook control of what users see and access. TRAI, India's regulatory body, tackles issues of net neutrality by banning differential pricing for data.

United States policy has impact far beyond its borders—and with net neutrality this is no different. By allowing US-based companies to restrict access within the US, those companies are more easily able to extend those restrictions elsewhere. There are social and economic impacts of a non-neutral net—even now net neutrality violations exist.

Digital rights are a global issue. Moving forward, we need to work together to make sure that there is equitable access to freedom-respecting technology across the globe. Keeping the Internet accessible with the help of net neutrality is the next step. Let's take it together.

We need you to protect net neutrality. Tell the people in your life, tell the FCC, tell your story.

Last week we happily announced that we awarded Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification to fifteen new devices from Technoethical (formerly Tehnoetic): the TET-N150HGA, the TET-N300, the TET-N300HGA, the TET-N300DB, the TET-N450DB, the TET-BT4, the TET-X200, the TET-X200T, the TET-X200S, the TET-T400, the TET-400S, the TET-T500, the TET-X200DOCK, the TET-T400DOCK, and the TET-D16. While Technoethical is based in Romania, they are able to ship to many countries around the world. The RYF certification mark means that the products meet the FSF's standards in regard to users' freedom, control over the product, and privacy.

This is a vast expansion of the currently available RYF products, more than doubling the present count. Users now have more options than ever when it comes to devices they can trust. We hope to repeat the feat accomplished this week with even more big launches in the future. Technoethical should be very proud of what they've accomplished here, and we look forward to seeing even more new hardware from them.

These of course are not the first devices from Technoethical to receive RYF certification. Technoethical's Mini WiFi USB adapter TET-N150 was certified in 2014. With these additions, Technoethical is now home to an incredible breadth of devices that users can trust to respect their freedom. They use their expansive portfolio of hardware to help fund their passion for free software, donating a portion of their proceeds to the FSF as well as other free software projects.

Last week's certifications include multiple laptops: the TET-X200, the TET-X200T, the TET-X200s, the TET-T400, the TET-T400s, and the TET-T500. Technoethical was not the first to have laptops that Respect Your Freedom, but this entry breaks new ground by introducing a tablet to the mix. The TET-X200T has a convertible screen that allows it to change from a laptop to a tablet, the first such laptop to be certified. In addition to introducing a tablet form factor, Technoethical is bringing slimmer and sleeker laptops with the TET-X200S and TET-T400S, both of which are narrower and lighter than their non-S labelled counterparts.

Technoethical also received certification on two docking stations: the TET-X200DOCK for X200 series laptops and the TET-T400DOCK for T400 and T500 series laptops. The TET-D16 is now the second mainboard certified by the FSF. Technoethical offers a wide range of RYF-certified WiFi USB adapters, adding the TET-N150HGA, the TET-N300, and the TET-N300HGA to its line-up. They also have two internal WiFi devices: the TET-N300DB and the TET-N450DB. Finally, Technoethical now offers the first certified Bluetooth device — the TET-BT4 USB adapter. Certification details for all these devices, including certified source code, can be found at https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/technoethical.

Certifying devices isn't a simple process. That is why it was great that the folks from Technoethical were able to join us at LibrePlanet 2017. It was wonderful to be able to work with them in person in making our initial review. Because RYF is a global program, we often only get to interact via email and the post. Doing an in person meet up is obviously a lot more fun, and also enabled them to showcase their work at the conference itself.

RYF makes it possible for people with less technical knowledge who care about user freedom to identify which products they should purchase. Its continued growth is an important step towards making a world where it is easy for users to control their own computing. Technoethical's work is the biggest leap forward we've made so far, but we can't just rest on our laurels. To be successful, we have to keep developing and strengthening the program. Here's what you can do to help support the RYF program:

• Purchase RYF-certified devices and recommend them to your friends.
• Support our work on RYF by becoming an associate member or making a donation.