That's right, Electric is free software, an official GNU package. You can download the full version of Electric right now.
There is no better way to get to know a CAD system than to use it for a while. Now you can use it at no charge! If you like it, keep it! If you don't, you've lost nothing.
Why are we doing this? Because we believe that software should not be proprietary, and we want everyone to be able to use Electric.
The Java distribution consists of a single ".jar" file that will run on any platform with Java 17 or later (available from Oracle or Apache Harmony). You can get a ".jar" file with or without source code (the source version is larger). Both versions have the built-in user's manual, supporting libraries, and binary code, so they are ready to run.
For specific information about running Electric on your system, read the setup manual page.
The distributions are located on the Free Software Foundation (GNU) web pages. You can read about downloading GNU Electric there, or you can...
GET THE GNU ELECTRIC BINARY RELEASE,
version 9.08
GET THE GNU ELECTRIC SOURCE RELEASE,
version 9.08
...from the main GNU FTP area now. If this server is busy, check the list of mirrors and find Electric locally.
For those who wish to examine the very latest source code, it can be found in a Subversion repository at GNU Savannah.
Due to copyright restrictions, GNU is unable to distribute those parts of Electric that come from external sources. Therefore, these facilities must be downloaded separately. After downloading a GNU Electric distribution, you can download these extras (none of which are necessary):
Finally, you can download additional circuitry examples that work with Electric.
Please note that these free distributions are controlled by the GNU General Public License (GPL), which requires you to make your source changes freely available when you redistribute the system.