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A list of free culture books pertaining to free software and other subjects that are released under free licenses. We hope to eventually move this to a more central resource.
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More and more electronic version of books get imposed on students to follow a class. Many of such books comes with DRM, which also forces students to run nonfree software. Paper books has no such restrictions, however book publisher can decide not to publish new versions of them anymore.
  
* Even if the license is nonfree (e.g. CC-BY-NC) it should still be documented here, as we can persuade the authors to free them.
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This page attempt to list electronic books that have no DRM, along with their license.  
  
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Free licenses for manuals are also essential for freedom as they enable to adapt the book, and redistribute it.
  
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We hope to eventually move this to a more central resource.
 
 
== Software Documentation ==
 
 
 
== Humanities ==
 
 
 
== Mathematics ==
 
  
 
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Revision as of 17:53, 12 October 2019

More and more electronic version of books get imposed on students to follow a class. Many of such books comes with DRM, which also forces students to run nonfree software. Paper books has no such restrictions, however book publisher can decide not to publish new versions of them anymore.

This page attempt to list electronic books that have no DRM, along with their license.

Free licenses for manuals are also essential for freedom as they enable to adapt the book, and redistribute it.

We hope to eventually move this to a more central resource.

Link Topic Class Country License
Math 105 - Math In Society - Open Textbook Maths liberal arts majors Portland, USA Mix of creative commons, including:
  • cc-by-sa for most of the book
  • cc-by-nc-nd for very few figures

Nonfree

Science without a computer - CS Unplugged is a collection of free learning activities that teach Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around. Free activities for classroom or home.