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Free Expression
This is the home page for a project to develop a copylefted suite of streaming media tools (server, client, encoders, and codec(s)). It is just getting started. This page is under pretty constant construction at the moment, but it does already provide some useful stuff for the motivated....
The primary motivation in starting this project is to provide free tools for artists who want to use the Web as a distribution medium (See FreeSpeechTV and The Sync for examples), and to make Linux a viable platform for them to use.

How you can help

If you're a user of streaming media tools today, and know what you need, or what you want but do not have in currently available tools, we would appreciate your input. Please add your suggestions to our requirements database. You can also see the entries other people have made.
That way, the developers will know what to aim for in design and coding. (Remember, we're mostly not users of these tools ourselves. Especially the ones that cost lots of money).
If you're interested in working on this project, send an email to Lynn Winebarger . Better yet, subscribe to the Free Expression mailing list: send an email to and put "subscribe free-expression" in the body of the mail. The address to send mail to the list itself is