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Discover open-source software founded or developed in Canada — from academic projects to government tools and community initiatives.

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rc-servers

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Graham Littlewood 2025 Ottawa, Ontario GPL-3.0 v1.2.2

rc-servers reimplements all Robocraft servers to make the defunct game playable again. The project is fully self-hostable and does not require any game client modifications. After the shutdown of FreeJam, the British game studio behind Robocraft, and inspired by the Stop Killing Games movement, the OpenJam project was founded in Ottawa to keep their games running.

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OpenHMD

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Joey Ferwerda & contributors, Canadian team 2013 Toronto, Ontario Boost Software License v0.3.0

OpenHMD is a free and open-source API and drivers for immersive technology such as head-mounted displays (VR/AR). Canadian developers have been central contributors, and the project supports a wide range of VR headsets on Linux.

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LibreOffice

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The Document Foundation (with major Canadian contributors) 2010 National, National MPL-2.0 v24.8

LibreOffice is the world's leading free and open-source office suite. Canada's open-source community has long championed LibreOffice adoption, and Canadian contributors actively participate in development, translation into French, and accessibility improvements.

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OpenMRS

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Regenstrief Institute (University of Toronto key contributor) 2004 Toronto, Ontario MPL-2.0 v2.7

OpenMRS is an open-source medical record system used in developing countries. The University of Toronto and affiliated Canadian researchers are among the primary contributors to its core platform and modules, helping deliver healthcare technology globally.

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NRC Open Tools

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National Research Council of Canada 2010 Ottawa, Ontario MIT / Apache-2.0 vVarious

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) publishes numerous open-source tools and datasets for materials science, climate modelling, construction standards, and aerospace research. Their open-data and open-software initiatives are publicly available via the Government of Canada's open resource portal.

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Freenet

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Ian Clarke (primarily), Canadian contributors 2000 Edinburgh / Toronto, Ontario GPL-2.0 v0.7.5

Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication and publishing. Ian Clarke, whose work has strong Canadian roots, created the project. Canadian privacy advocates and technical contributors have been essential to the project's ongoing development and adoption.

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Sage Math (PIMS Supported)

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Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) 2005 Vancouver, British Columbia GPL-3.0 v10.4

SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system. The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), a consortium of Canadian universities, provides infrastructure and hosting for SageMath and has been a key institutional backer of open mathematical software in Canada.

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Axiom

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Tim Daly, Canadian NSERC-funded contributions 1971 Toronto, Ontario BSD v2023.01

Axiom is a free, open-source computer algebra system with a long history. Canadian mathematicians supported through NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council) have contributed significantly to its formal mathematics libraries and documentation.

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Pidgin

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Mark Spencer, Canadian community contributions 1997 Various, National GPL-2.0 v2.14.x

Pidgin is a free and open-source multi-protocol instant messaging client. Canadian open-source developers have long been contributors to Pidgin and its underlying libpurple library, which supports dozens of chat protocols.

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NRC Word-Emotion Association Lexicon

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Dr. Saif Mohammad – National Research Council Canada 2010 Ottawa, Ontario Research License (Free) v0.92

Developed by the National Research Council of Canada, the NRC Word-Emotion Association Lexicon (EmoLex) is a widely-cited open linguistic resource mapping words to emotions and sentiments. It is freely available for research and has been used in thousands of NLP studies worldwide.

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OSCAR EMR

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McMaster University 2001 Hamilton, Ontario GPL-2.0 v19.x

OSCAR EMR (Open Source Clinical Application Resource) is a Canadian-developed open-source electronic medical records system used by thousands of primary care physicians across Canada. Developed at McMaster University, it supports bilingual interfaces and Canadian-specific clinical workflows including OHIP billing.

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Secret

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Canadian Digital Service 2025 Ottawa, Ontario MIT

Encrypted Message Crypté is a small application that allows you to share passwords, secret messages, or private links securely with another person. It does this by hiding your message behind a unique URL that can only be viewed once. Messages automatically expire after a predefined time limit if they are not viewed.

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Algorithmic Impact Assessment

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Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat 2019 Ottawa, Ontario MIT v1.01

The AIA is a questionnaire designed to help you assess and mitigate the impacts associated with deploying an automated decision system. The AIA helps identify the impact level of your automation project under the Directive on Automated Decision-Making. Completion and release of an AIA is required by the Directive.

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Volume Cleaner

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Statistics Canada 2025 Ottawa, Ontario AGPL-3.0

This project was designed to integrate with Statistic Canada’s The Zone platform. In The Zone, users can create individual workspaces with Kubeflow Notebooks. To persist their work, users can attach volumes to their notebooks. These volumes are not automatically deleted when a notebook is deleted. Users are free to move them or to reuse them. As a result, over time, users tend to amass several unused volumes. These volumes sit on the cloud and result in unnecessary costs. The purpose of this project is to design an automatic system that detects these unused volumes and safely removes them, reducing unnecessary expenditure. Despite being primarily designed for Statistics Canada, this project strongly values open-source practices. The codebase is available for public use and the entire development process is documented on the issues page. The volume cleaner was designed to have as little coupling as possible so it can easily integrate into projects outside Statistics Canada. Using open-source and being open-source was an important development philosophy.

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Open Data Directive

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Government of Ontario 2015 Toronto, Ontario Open Government Licence v1.0

This Directive outlines requirements for ministries and provincial agencies on listing all data inventories, publishing open data, and preparing information systems to support ongoing open data requirements. The open data initiative supports government efficiency, effectiveness and innovation. Faster and easier access to government data through a one-window data portal facilitates evidence-based policy, informs service delivery and promotes greater transparency and accountability. The open data initiative also supports public engagement and participation by allowing Ontarians to develop their own analysis, insights, and digital products. To support this implementation of the directive, an Open Data Guidebook is available as a tool and resource to Ontario ministries and provincial agencies. The Open Data Directive is a Management Board of Cabinet Directive, issued under the Management Board of Cabinet Act.

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BC Sans

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Government of British Columbia 2019 Victoria, British Columbia OFL-1.1 v2.1.0

BC Sans (2.0) is an open-source "living" typeface developed for government to improve the readability and delivery of digital services. It was designed to support special characters and syllabics found in Indigenous Languages in B.C.

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BCGov Cas Pipeline

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Government of British Columbia 2020 Victoria, British Columbia Apache-2.0

CI/CD pipeline patterns for B.C. climate action systems.

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D-Wave Ocean SDK

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D-Wave Quantum 2017 Burnaby, British Columbia Apache-2.0 v9.4.0

Users interact with D‑Wave quantum computers through a web user interface (UI), and through open-source tools that communicate with the Solver API (SAPI). The SAPI components are responsible for user interaction, user authentication, and work scheduling. In turn, SAPI connects to back-end servers that send problems to and return results from QPUs and additional solvers, which are located in different geographical regions (for example, North America or Europe).[1]

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dimod

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D-Wave Quantum 2017 Burnaby, British Columbia Apache-2.0 v0.12.22

Shared API for binary quadratic models and samplers in D-Wave Ocean.

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dwave-system

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D-Wave Quantum 2017 Burnaby, British Columbia Apache-2.0 v1.35.0

dwave-system is an API for easily incorporating D-Wave quantum computers as a sampler in the Ocean software stack, directly or through the Leap service’s cloud-based hybrid solvers. It includes DWaveSampler, a dimod sampler that accepts and passes system parameters such as system identification and authentication down the stack, StrideHybridSolver, for Leap’s Stride™ hybrid solver, and others. It also includes several useful composites—layers of pre- and post-processing—that can be used with DWaveSampler to handle minor-embedding, optimize chain strength, etc.

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dwave-networkx

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D-Wave Quantum 2017 Burnaby, British Columbia Apache-2.0

NetworkX algorithms and generators for D-Wave optimization examples.

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penaltymodel

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D-Wave Quantum 2017 Burnaby, British Columbia Apache-2.0

Penalty model generation tools for binary quadratic optimization.

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Toxiproxy

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Shopify 2014 Ottawa, Ontario MIT

Proxy for simulating network and system conditions in tests.

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Bootsnap

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Shopify 2017 Ottawa, Ontario MIT

Ruby boot-time optimizer and cache library.

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go-lua

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Shopify 2014 Ottawa, Ontario MIT

Lua VM implemented in Go.

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