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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 price. To understand
the concept; you should think of "free" as in
"free speech;
not as in
beer:
We
sometimes call it
software,
borrowing
the French or Spanish word for "free" as in
freedom; to show we do not mean the
software is
You may have paid money to get copies of a
free program, Or you may have obtained
conies ar no charge
But regardless of how
"free
~libre
gratis.