Free Software for the Palm Computing Platform

Introduction

This site is in a draft state. All comments are welcomed.

This site is an attempt to promote Free Software on the 3com Palm Computing Platform (tm).

This platform is supported by a growing number of developpers. Among them, more and more have chosen to put their software under a Free Software licence - often the GNU General Public Licence.

This site attempts to:

• reference all software projects which can be considered as Free according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG), organized by software categories.
• list missing DFSG-Free programs in each of the above-mentionned categories, which the Palm community misses, with references to non-DFSG-free programs when they exist.
• explicit the licences for DFSG-free and quasi-free software.
• provide a base site to turn authors at, to encourage them at licencing their software at DFSG-free.
• list some essential non DFSG-free software where no DFSG-free replacements are available.
• etc.

Free Software categories

• System stuff
• Support applications for standalone computers
• Communications and networking software
• Data viewers
• Organization apps
• Development tools
• Games
• Miscellaneous apps

Non DFSG-Free categories

• Software that may become DFSG-free
• Quasi-free software
• Source-less freeware
• Quasi-freeware
• Shareware

Generation mechanism for these pages

The categories pages are generated using m4, from a template and a list defined for each category. All this mechanism is available and covered by the GPL v2.

Things TODO

• Use a real DB engine, or some SGML/DSSSL stuff
• Have the site really designed
• List more apps
• List apps needed as Free Software
• Auto-add links to licence texts (GPL and such)
• Links to what declares the licencing terms