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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 “free beer.” We s... See more
Free Software Foundation • What is Free Software? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms:-The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).-The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.-The freedom to redistribute co... See more
What is Free Software? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
“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 “free beer.” We s... See more
What is Free Software? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
Richard Stallman, the MIT hacker who’s generally credited with starting the free software movement, was inspired to launch the GNU project, a free software operating system, in 1983, after attempting to customize a Xerox printer in MIT’s AI Lab and finding that he could not access or modify its source code. Stallman wanted to liberate code from pro
... See moreNadia Eghbal • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
The first, General Public License (GPL), is an example of how innovative licensing can prevent the privatization of community-built assets in perpetuity, and sometimes expand them.
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public interest software.
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