Free Software, Free Society: selected essays of Richard M. Stallman. 2nd edition.

Appendix B: Translations of the Term “Free Software”

The following is a list of recommended unambiguous translations of the term “free software” into various languages:

• Afrikaans: vrye sagteware

• Albanian: software i lirë

• Arabic: برمجيات حرة (barmagiyat ḥorrah)

• Armenian: ազատ ծրագիր/ծրագրեր (azat tsragir/tsragrer)

• Belarusian: свабоднае праграмнае забесьпячэньне (svabodnae pragramnae zabes'pjachen'ne)

• Bulgarian: свободен софтуер (svoboden softuer)

• Catalan: programari lliure

• Chinese(Simplified): 自由软件 (zi-you ruan-jian)

• Chinese(Traditional): 自由軟體 (zih-yo)

• Czech: svobodný software

• Croatian/Serbian: slobodni softver

• Danish: fri software OR frit programmel

• Dutch: vrije software

• Esperanto: libera programaro / programo

• Estonian: vaba tarkvara

• Farsi (= Persian): نرم‌افزارِ آزاد

• Finnish: vapaa ohjelmisto

• French: logiciel libre

• German: freie Software

• Greek: ελεύθερο λογισμικό (eleuthero logismiko)

• Hebrew: תוכנה חופשית (tochna chofshit)

• Hindi: मुक्त सॉफ्टवेयर (mukt software)

• Hungarian: szabad szoftver

• Icelandic: frjáls hugbúnaður

• Ido: libera programaro

• Indonesian: perangkat lunak bebas

• Interlingua: libere programmage / libere programmario

• Irish: bog earraí saoire

• Italian: software libero

• Japanese: 自由ソフトウェア

• Korean: 자유 소프트웨어 (ja-yu software)

• Lithuanian: laisva programinė įranga

• Norwegian: fri programvare

• Malay: perisian bebas

• Malayalam: സ്വതന്ത്ര സോഫ്റ്റ്‌വെയര്‍

• Persian (= Farsi): نرم‌افزارِ آزاد

• Polish: wolne oprogramowanie

• Portuguese: software livre

• Romanian: software liber

• Russian: свободное программное обеспечение (svobodnoe programmnoe obespechenie)

• Sardinian: software liberu

• Serbian/Croatian: слободни софтвер (slobodni softver)

• Slovak: slobodný softvér

• Slovenian: prosto programje

• Spanish: software libre

• Swahili: Programu huru za Kompyuta

• Swedish: fri programvara, fri mjukvara

• Tagalog/Filipino: malayang software

• Tamil: கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள்

• Thai: ซอฟต์แวร์เสรี

• Turkish: özgür yazılım

• Ukrainian: вільне програмне забезпечення (vil'ne prohramne zabezpechennja)

• Vietnamese: phần mềm tự do

• Welsh: meddalwedd rydd

• Zulu: Isoftware Ekhululekile