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We have long supported publication of free documentation (free in the sense of freedom--we don't mean gratis). free software needs free documentation because you must be free to copy, change and redistribute the documentation along with the software. To qualify as free, the documentation must be released under a free documentation license.
We publish a number of free books of documentation ourselves. You
can order printed copies of our books,
download them from the
/gnu/Manuals
directory on our ftp
site and browse them online.
We have been doing this since around 1986.
More recently, some commercial publishers have begun publishing free books. (Like our books, these are free in the sense of freedom; the commercially printed copies are sold.) On this page, we keep a list of these books that we have come across. If you find out about a free book that we don't have listed here, please let us know by emailing us at <free-books@gnu.org>.
Newer listings are placed at the top of this list.
Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | License |
---|---|---|---|---|
An Introduction to GCC | Brian J. Gough | Network Theory Ltd. | 0-9541617-9-3 | GNU Free Documentation License |
Python Language Reference Manual | Guido van Rossum and Fred L. Drake, Jr. | Network Theory Ltd. | 0-9541617-8-5 | Python license |
An Introduction to Python | Guido van Rossum and Fred L. Drake, Jr. | Network Theory Ltd. | 0-9541617-6-9 | Python license |
The R Reference Manual - Base Package - Volume 1 | The R Development Core Team | Network Theory Ltd. | 0-9546120-0-0 | Old GNU manual license |
The R Reference Manual - Base Package - Volume 2 | The R Development Core Team | Network Theory Ltd. | 0-9546120-1-9 | Old GNU manual license |
GNU Bash Reference Manual | Chet Ramey, Brian Fox | Network Theory Ltd. | 0-9541617-7-7 | Old GNU manual license |
Comparing and Merging Files with GNU diff and patch | D. MacKenzie, P. Eggert, R. Stallman | Network Theory Ltd. | 0-9541617-5-0 | GNU Free Documentation License |
The GNU Scientific Library Reference Manual | M. Galassi, et al. | Network Theory Ltd. | 0-9541617-0-X | GNU Free Documentation License |
An Introduction to R | W.N. Venables, et al. | Network Theory Ltd. | 0-9541617-4-2 | Old GNU manual license |
GNU Octave Manual | John W. Eaton | Network Theory Ltd. | 0-9541617-2-6 | Old GNU manual license |
Version Management with CVS | Per Cederqvist, et al. | Network Theory Ltd. | 0-9541617-1-8 | Old GNU manual license |
Vi IMproved -- Vim | Steve Oualline | New Riders | 0735710015 | Open Publication License, Version 1.0 (no options exercised) (See note below) |
Dive Into Python (work still in progress) | Mark Pilgrim | GNU Free Documentation License | ||
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python, First Edition | Allen Downey, Jeff Elkner and Chris Meyers | Green Tea | 0971677506 | GNU Free Documentation License |
Advanced Linux Programming, First Edition | Mark Mitchell, Jeffery Oldham, and Alex Samuel | New Riders | 0-757-1043-0 | Open Publication License, Version 1.0 (no options exercised) (See note below) |
The Zope Book, First Edition | Amos Latteier and Michel Pelletier | New Riders | 0-7357-1137-2 | Open Publication License, Version 1.0 (no options exercised) |
Linux Device Drivers, Second Edition | Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet | O'Reilly and Associates | 0-596-00008-1 | GNU Free Documentation License (See note below) |
Effective awk Programming, Third Edition |
Arnold Robbins | O'Reilly and Associates | 0-596-00070-7 | GNU Free Documentation License |
GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool | Gary V. Vaughan, Ben Elliston, Tom Tromey, Ian Lance Taylor | New Riders | 1-57870-190-2 | Open Publication License, Version 1.0 (no options exercised) |
Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage (Currently out-of-print) | John Goerzen and Ossama Othman | New Riders | 0-7357-0914-9 | GNU General Public License |
GTK+/GNOME Application Development | Havoc Pennington | New Riders | 0-7357-0078-8 | Open Publication License, Version 1.0 (no options exercised) |
Open Source Development with CVS | Karl Fogel and Moshe Bar | Paraglyph Press | 1932111816 | GNU General Public License |
Programming from the Ground Up | Jonathan Bartlett | Bartlett Publishing | 0975283847 | GNU Free Documentation License |
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