Collection:High Priority Projects

High Priority Projects

Programs related to FSF's High Priority Free Software Projects. Note that, at least in regards to forms of real-time personal communications, the aforementioned campaign focuses on protocols which federate, not clients nor on specific software.

This is an automatically-generated list of all (96) high priority projects indexed by the Free Software Directory:

Name	Description	Homepage	License	GNU
Argos Translate	neural machine translation in Python	https://www.argosopentech.com/	Expat	false
AutoSub	A CLI script to generate subtitle files (SRT/VTT/TXT) for any video using Mozilla DeepSpeech	https://github.com/abhirooptalasila/AutoSub/	Expat	false
Bayonne	Telephony server.	https://www.gnu.org/software/bayonne/	GPLv3orlater	true
Bisq	A decentralized cryptocurrency exchange	https://bisq.network/	AGPLv3	false
CMUSphinx- Training	the training program for a speaker-independent large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer.	http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/cmusphinx.php	BSD 2Clause	false
Carl9170fw	Libre firmware for AR9170 USB wireless adapters	https://github.com/chunkeey/carl9170fw		false
Ccrtp	RTP protocol stack of GNU Common C++ and the GNU project.	https://www.gnu.org/software/ccrtp/	PublicDomain Expat GPLv3orlater LGPLv2.1orlater GPLv2orlater with library exception	true
Coqui STT	The deep learning toolkit for Speech-to-Text.	https://coqui.ai/	MPL-2.0	false
Dante	Free implementation of socks version 4, socks version 5, and msproxy	http://www.inet.no/dante/	GPL	false
Decentraleyes	Protects you against tracking through "free", centralized, content delivery. It prevents a lot of requests from reaching networks like Google Hosted Libraries, and serves local files to keep sites from breaking. Complements regular content blockers.	https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/		false
DeepSpeech	embedded (offline, on-device) speech-to-text engine which can run in real time	https://deepspeech.readthedocs.io/	MPL-2.0	false
Diaspora	Server software for the decentralized social network of the same name	https://diasporafoundation.org/	AGPLv3orlater	false
DuckDuckGo (Lite SSL)	This add-on will put the Lite (non-JS / SSL) version of DuckDuckGo in your search bar.	https://duckduckgo.com/lite/		false
EDUBlocks	A programming language for students and teachers	https://edublocks.org/	AGPL-3.0 Expat	false
Ecryptfs-utils	ecryptfs cryptographic filesystem (utilities)	https://launchpad.net/ecryptfs	GPLv2orlater	false
Ekiga	VoIP and video conferencing	http://www.ekiga.org/	GPLv2orlater	false
Electrum	A secure, forgiving, lightweight and easy to use Bitcoin client	http://electrum.org/	GPLv3orlater	false
Empathy	a messaging program which supports text, voice, and video chat and file transfers over many different protocols.	https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/Empathy	GFDL GPLv2orlater LGPLv2.1orlater Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.5	false
Enigmail	GPG support for Thunderbird/Icedove	http://www.enigmail.net/home/index.php	GPLv2orlater LGPLv2.1orlater Creative Commons Attribution 3.0	false
FOSSology	Scan files for licenses and copyrights	https://www.fossology.org/	LGPLv2.1 GPLv2 with exception	false
Fairseq	Facebook AI Research Sequence-to-Sequence Toolkit written in Python.	https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq	Expat	false
Flashproxy	Pluggable transport to circumvent IP address blocking - nodejs proxy	https://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/	Expat	false
FoxyProxy Standard	FoxyProxy is an advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox's limited proxying capabilities. For a simpler tool and less advanced configuration options, please use FoxyProxy Basic.	http://getfoxyproxy.org/	GPLv2	false
Freenet	Filesharing program	https://freenetproject.org/	GPLv2	false
Friendica	Friendica Communications Platform	http://friendica.com/	AGPLv3	false
GlobaLeaks	GlobaLeaks is free software intended to enable secure and anonymous whistleblowing initiatives.	https://www.globaleaks.org/	AGPL-3.0-or-later	false
Gnu-crypto	Full set of Java cryptographic tools.	https://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-crypto/	GPLv2orlater with library exception	true
Gnucomm	GNU telecommunications project.	https://www.gnu.org/software/gnucomm/	GPLv3orlater	true
Gnupg	Complete implementation of the OpenPGP Internet standard.	https://gnupg.org/	BSD 3Clause Expat GPLv3orlater	false
Gnutls	Library implementing TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0.	https://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/	GPLv3orlater LGPLv2.1orlater LGPLv3orlater	true false
Gnuzilla	GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser.		LGPL GPL MPL	false
Gpa	graphical user interface for the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG).	http://www.gnupg.org/gpa.html	GPLv3orlater	false
H-client	Graphical client for the h-node hardware database project	https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/h-client	GPLv3orlater	false
HTTPS Everywhere	Browser extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure.	https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere	GPLv3orlater	false
I2P	Invisible Internet Project	https://geti2p.net/	PublicDomain BSD Artistic GPLv2 with exception	false
IceCat/CanvasBlocker	Blocks the JS-API for modifying <canvas> to prevent Canvas-Fingerprinting.</canvas>	https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvasblocker/		false
IceCat/Disable WebRTC	WebRTC exposes your internal network IP(s), without user interaction.	https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/happy-bonobo-disable-webrtc/		false
IceCat/NoScript	Only enable JavaScript for sites you trust.	https://noscript.net/	GPLv2	false
Iptables	program to configure the Linux IP packet filtering rules	http://www.iptables.org/	GPLv2	false
Jami	Distributed and encrypted audio/video/text communication.	https://www.gnu.org/software/jami/	GPLv3orlater	true
Komodo	A Zcash fork.	https://komodoplatform.com/	Expat AGPLv3orlater	false
Leon	Virtual personal assistant	https://getleon.ai/	Expat	false
Libgcrypt	Cryptographic library.	https://gnupg.org/software/libgcrypt/	PublicDomain GPLv2orlater BSD 3Clause LGPLv2.1orlater	false
LibreTranslate	Free Machine Translation API. 100% self-hosted, no limits, no ties to proprietary translation services	https://libretranslate.com/	AGPL-3.0	false
Librewolf	An independent fork of Firefox focusing on privacy, security, and software freedoms.	https://librewolf.net/	MPL	false
Licenseutils	Put copyright and license notices at the head of source code files	http://sv.gnu.org/p/licenseutils	Other GPLv3orlater	false
Lingua	The most accurate natural language detection library for Python, suitable for long and short text alike	https://github.com/pemistahl/lingua-py		false
Linphone	SIP softphone	https://www.linphone.org	GPLv2	false
Location Guard	Hide your geographic location from websites. Report a fake location with the addition of random noise in order to protect your privacy. Per site settings with three configurable levels of accuracy or even the possibility to use a fixed location.	https://github.com/chatziko/location-guard		false
Maryam	Open-source intelligence(OSINT) framework	https://github.com/saeeddhqan/Maryam	GPLv3	false
Mastodon	Microblogging server software which follows the ActivityPub standard, supports content warnings and private messages	https://joinmastodon.org	AGPL-3.0-or-later	false
Matrix-synapse	Synapse: Matrix reference homeserver	https://matrix.org/	Apache2.0	false
Mediagoblin	Server software that allows you to share your media with the world.	https://mediagoblin.org/	Common Public License 1.0 AGPLv3orlater	true
Monero Core	Monero (XMR), after the Esperanto word for money, is a CryptoNight-based cryptocurrency forked from Bytecoin (BCN).	https://getmonero.org/	BSD 3Clause	false
Mycroft	Virtual assistant	https://mycroft.ai/		false
NeMo	a toolkit for conversational AI	https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/nemo/		false
OnionShare	OnionShare is a free software tool that lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size.	https://onionshare.org/	GPLv3orlater	false
Open HRMS Software	Most Advanced Open Source Human Resource Management Software	https://www.openhrms.com/	AGPL-3.0	false
Openbazaar-desktop	OpenBazaar 2.0 Desktop Client (talks to openbazaar-go server daemon)	https://openbazaar.org/		false
Openbazaar-go	OpenBazaar 2.0 Server Daemon in Go	https://openbazaar.org/	X11	false
Openfight	auto-diagnosis and bigData (opendata) tool to fight covid2 and other pandemics	https://github.com/hacknlove/openfight	GPLv3	false
Osip	Library supporting the Session Initiation Protocol.	https://www.gnu.org/software/osip/	LGPLv2.1orlater	true
OwnCloud	Web application for storage and synchronization of files	http://owncloud.org/	GPLv2orlater Creative Commons Attribution 3.0	false
Pica Pica Messenger	Secure decentralized instant messaging platform with e2e encryption	https://picapica.im	GPLv3orlater	false
Pidgin-otr	A Pidgin plugin for off-the-record conversations	https://otr.cypherpunks.ca		false
Pixelfed	Photo sharing server software, powered by ActivityPub	https://pixelfed.org/	AGPL-3.0-or-later	false
Privacy Badger	Browser extension that detects and prevents third-party tracking	https://www.eff.org/privacybadger	GPLv3	false
Privoxy	Web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities	https://www.privoxy.org/	GPLv2	false
Pump.io	Blogging server software that federates using the Activity Streams standard	http://pump.io	Apache2.0	false
PyBitmessage	Reference client for Bitmessage	https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main Page		false
Ricochet	Decentralized Instant messenger via the Tor network	https://ricochet.im/	BSD 3Clause	false
Searx	Searx a privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine inspired by the Seeks websearch proxy	https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/	AGPLv3	false
SecureDrop	whistleblower submission system	https://securedrop.org/		false
Sipwitch	SIP-based office telephone call server.	https://www.gnu.org/software/sipwitch/	GPLv3orlater	true
Social	Powerful social network that is federated.	https://www.gnu.org/software/social/	AGPLv3orlater	true
Spchcat	Speech recognition tool to convert audio to text transcripts	https://github.com/petewarden/spchcat	MPL-2.0	false
Speex	Speech compression format.	https://www.gnu.org/software/speex/	Xiph	true
Superalgos	Markets research and trading automation platform	https://superalgos.org		false
Taler	Advanced electronic payment system for privacy-preserving payments.	https://www.taler.net/	AGPLv3orlater GPLv3orlater LGPLv2.1orlater	true
Tor	Anonymous network router to improve privacy on the Internet.	https://torproject.org		false
Tor Browser	A Firefox ESR-based web browser for use of the TOR network	https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html	GPLv3orlater	false
TorBirdy	Provides safe Tor support for Icedove/Mozilla Thunderbird	https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/torbirdy		false
Torsocks	use SOCKS-friendly applications with Tor	https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git	GPLv2	false
Tribler	Python based BitTorrent/Internet TV application	http://www.tribler.org/	GPLv2orlater Expat LGPLv2.1orlater	false
Twinkle	SIP VoIP Phone	http://www.xs4all.nl/~mfnboer/twinkle/home.html	GPLv2orlater	false
Twister	Twister is the fully decentralized P2P microblogging platform leveraging from the free software implementations of Bitcoin and BitTorrent protocols	http://twister.net.co/	Expat	false
UBlock Origin	A wide-spectrum blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.	https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock	GPLv3orlater	false
UMatrix	Point & click to forbid/allow any class of requests made by your browser. Use it to block scripts, iframes, ads, facebook, etc.	https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/	GPLv3	false
Vosk Server	WebSocket, gRPC and WebRTC speech recognition server based on Vosk and Kaldi libraries	https://alphacephei.com/vosk/server		false
Websocket	WebSocket pluggable transport - server	https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/websocket.git	Other	false
Weechat-scripts	script collection for the WeeChat IRC client	http://weechat.flashtux.org/plugins.php		false
Wire	Modern communication tool, full privacy.	https://wire.com/	AGPLv3orlater GPLv3orlater	false
WriteFreely	A clean, minimalist publishing platform made for writers	https://writefreely.org/	AGPL-3.0-or-later	false
Zcash	Zcash is a decentralized cryptocurrency that offers privacy and selective transparency of transactions. Zcash payments are published on a public blockchain, but the sender, recipient, and amount of a transaction remain private	https://z.cash/	Expat AGPLv3orlater	false
Zclassic	Zclassic is a Zcash fork with no 20% Founders Tax.	http://zclassic.org/	Expat AGPLv3orlater	false
Zcoin	Private financial transactions using the Zcoin protocol	http://zcoin.tech/	Expat	false

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