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About free software
Principles
What is Free Software?
"Free software
means software that respects
users' freedom and community Roughly, it
means that the users have the freedom to
run;
copy; distribute, study change and
improve the software: Thus,
free software
is a matter of
liberty, not
To understand
the concept; you should think of
as 1n
speech;
not as in
beer:
We
sometimes call it "libre software,
borrowing
the French or Spanish word for "free" as in
freedon; t0 show we do not mean the
software is
You may have paid money to ger copies of a
free program, OT you may have obtained
conies ar no charge
But regardless of how
price
"free"
"free
~[ree
gratis.