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Revision as of 18:07, 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 Schools using it License Comments
Math 105 - Math In Society - Open Textbook Maths liberal arts majors Portland, USA Seem to be made specifically for liberal arts majors in the Portland Community College Mix of creative commons, including:
  • cc-by-sa for most of the book
  • cc-by-nc-nd for very few figures
  • Has links to other books under cc-by-sa
  • Adapted version of Maths in Society for the Portland Community College
Math in Society Maths liberal arts major USA? Washington State faculty, other cc-by-sa
Computer 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. /!\ Nonfree