Overview of Free & Open source Desktop GIS (FOS-GIS)

below you can find links to two tables that should give an overview of free Desktop GIS and projects.
Desktop GIS means thereby that we did not inlcude map web server tools or basic GIS libraries.
Please be aware that this listing is probably not comprehensive. The tables can be altered on request. Please write to sstein[-at-]geo.uzh.ch - and preferably add the
tables with your changes (use for instance word doc + track changes mode)

We also wrote an article that provides some more information on the desktop GIS projects and additionally
contains an introduction on open source licenses and FOSGIS organizations.

Acknowledgments:
I have to thank numerous people of the different projects for contributing information: GRASS: Markus Neteler, Otto Dassau, Marco Hugentobler and Stefan Holl; KOSMO: Manuel Navarro; MapWindow: Daniel Ames, uDig: Jody Garnet and Jesse Eichar, SAGA: Olaf Conrad; ILWIS: Martin Schouwenburg; OpenJUMP: Michaël Michaud, DeeJUMP: Andreas Schmitz; PirolJUMP: Arnd Kielhorn; SkyJUMP: Larry Becker; gvSIG: Mario Carrera; and OrbisGIS: Erwan Bocher.  I would like to thank Ralf Tauscher, Jan-Oliver Wagner and others for comments and suggestions on foregoing presentation slides and first manuscript versions. Finally many thanks to Gary Sherman for hosting this page.

last change: 24 April 2008 - added link to article.
Stefan S.