FSF France - Free Software and science

Presentation.

Joris Van der Hoven initiated an APRIL working group to support Free Software in science. He's the author of GNU-TeXmacs and works for a french university himself and advocates that software made while conducting a research financed by the government should be released as Free Software.

The very spirit of research does not fit well with the restrictions imposed by proprietary licenses. Besides, citizens are not too happy when they have to finance the research and buy the product when it is released.

A french-speaking discussion-list was created fsfe-france-sci@gnu.org to discuss this subject.

Web pages are also envisaged. A CVS repository was created on savannah.

If you wish to participate, please join us on the workgroup's mailing list : fsfe-france-sci@gnu.org.

Contributions.

The table shows what is actually available.

Kind of resources	See the web page	First contributor
Free softwares for chemistry	chemistry	Jérôme Pansanel
Free softwares for scientific documentation	documentation	Olivier Berger
Free softwares for biology	biology	Jérôme Pansanel