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Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:24:34 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: D. E. Evans <sinuhe> 06/10/12 02:24:34
Modified files:
philosophy : .symlinks
Added files:
philosophy : free-sw.xhtml
Removed files:
philosophy : free-sw.html
Log message:
To be interpreted properly, this XHTML document needs to have an
XHTML extension so that the MIME is recognized as xhtml+xml.
Hopefully, the symlink works as it is supposed to.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/.symlinks?cvsroot=www&r1=1.15&r2=1.16
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/free-sw.xhtml?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/free-sw.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.48&r2=0
Patches:
Index: .symlinks
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/.symlinks,v
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diff -u -b -r1.15 -r1.16
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@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
../licenses/why-not-lgpl.pl.html why-not-lgpl.pl.html
../licenses/why-not-lgpl.ru.html why-not-lgpl.ru.html
censoring-emacs.html censoring-emacs.es.html
+free-sw.xhtml free-sw.html
free-world-notes.html free-world-notes.es.html
free-world.html free-world.es.html
kragen-software.html kragen-software.es.html
Index: free-sw.xhtml
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RCS file: free-sw.xhtml
diff -N free-sw.xhtml
--- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ free-sw.xhtml 12 Oct 2006 02:24:27 -0000 1.1
@@ -0,0 +1,381 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="/gnu.css"?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en">
+
+<head>
+<title>
+The Free Software Definition - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
+</title>
+<link rev="made" href="mailto:address@hidden"; />
+</head>
+
+<!-- This document is in XML and XHTML. -->
+<!-- Please ensure that your final document is -->
+<!-- consistent with W3C XHTML and CSS standards -->
+<!-- Also, see validator.w3.org -->
+
+<body>
+
+<div id="header">
+ <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/join/gnu";>
+ <img src="/graphics/dbd.png"
+ alt="[Join the FSF Campaign to Eliminate DRM]" />
+ </a>
+</div>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p><a href="#translations">Translations</a> of this page</p>
+
+<h3>The Free Software Definition</h3>
+<p>
+<a href="/graphics/philosophicalgnu.html">
+ <img src="/graphics/philosophical-gnu-sm.jpg"
+ alt=" [image of a Philosophical Gnu] "
+ width="160px"
+ height="200px" />
+</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We maintain this free software definition to show clearly what must
+be true about a particular software program for it to be considered
+free software.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>Free software</q> is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand
+the concept, you should think of <q>free</q> as in <q>free speech,</q>
+not as in <q>free beer.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute,
+study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to
+four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).</li>
+ <li>The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to
+ your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition
+ for this.
+ </li>
+ <li>The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
+ (freedom 2).
+ </li>
+ <li>The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements
+ to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3).
+ Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
+ </li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+A program is free software if users have all of these freedoms. Thus,
+you should be free to redistribute copies, either with or without
+modifications, either gratis or charging a fee for distribution, to
+<a href="#exportcontrol">anyone anywhere</a>. Being free to do these
+things means (among other things) that you do not have to ask or pay
+for permission.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+You should also have the freedom to make modifications and use them
+privately in your own work or play, without even mentioning that they
+exist. If you do publish your changes, you should not be required to
+notify anyone in particular, or in any particular way.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The freedom to run the program means the freedom for any kind of person
+or organization to use it on any kind of computer system, for any kind of
+overall job and purpose, without being required to communicate about it
+with the developer or any other specific entity. In this freedom, it is
+the <em>user's</em> purpose that matters, not the <em>developer's</em>
+purpose; you as a user are free to run a program for your purposes,
+and if you distribute it to someone else, she is then free to run it
+for her purposes, but you are not entitled to impose your purposes on her.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The freedom to redistribute copies must include binary or executable
+forms of the program, as well as source code, for both modified and
+unmodified versions. (Distributing programs in runnable form is necessary
+for conveniently installable free operating systems.) It is ok if there
+is no way to produce a binary or executable form for a certain program
+(since some languages don't support that feature), but you must have the
+freedom to redistribute such forms should you find or develop a way to
+make them.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In order for the freedoms to make changes, and to publish improved
+versions, to be meaningful, you must have access to the source code of
+the program. Therefore, accessibility of source code is a necessary
+condition for free software.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+One important way to modify a program is by merging in available
+free subroutines and modules. If the program's license says that you
+cannot merge in an existing module, such as if it requires you to be the
+copyright holder of any code you add, then the license is too restrictive
+to qualify as free.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In order for these freedoms to be real, they must be irrevocable as
+long as you do nothing wrong; if the developer of the software has the
+power to revoke the license, without your doing anything to give cause,
+the software is not free.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+However, certain kinds of rules about the manner of distributing free
+software are acceptable, when they don't conflict with the central
+freedoms. For example, copyleft (very simply stated) is the rule that
+when redistributing the program, you cannot add restrictions to deny
+other people the central freedoms. This rule does not conflict with
+the central freedoms; rather it protects them.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+You may have paid money to get copies of free software, or you may have
+obtained copies at no charge. But regardless of how you got your copies,
+you always have the freedom to copy and change the software, even to
+<a href="/philosophy/selling.html">sell copies</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>Free software</q> does not mean <q>non-commercial.</q> A free
+program must be available for commercial use, commercial development,
+and commercial distribution. Commercial development of free software
+is no longer unusual; such free commercial software is very important.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Rules about how to package a modified version are acceptable, if they
+don't substantively block your freedom to release modified versions, or
+your freedom to make and use modified versions privately. Rules that <q>if
+you make your version available in this way, you must make it available in
+that way also</q> can be acceptable too, on the same condition. (Note that
+such a rule still leaves you the choice of whether to publish your version
+at all.) Rules that require release of source code to the users for
+versions that you put into public use are also acceptable. It is also
+acceptable for the license to require that, if you have distributed a
+modified version and a previous developer asks for a copy of it, you
+must send one, or that you identify yourself on your modifications.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In the GNU project, we use
+<q><a href="/copyleft/copyleft.html">copyleft</a></q>
+to protect these freedoms legally for everyone. But
+<a href="/philosophy/categories.html#Non-CopyleftedFreeSoftware">non-copylefted
+free software</a> also exists. We believe there are important reasons why
+<a href="/philosophy/pragmatic.html"> it is better to use copyleft</a>,
+but if your program is non-copylefted free software, we can still
+use it.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+See <a href="/philosophy/categories.html">Categories of Free Software</a>
+for a description of how <q>free software,</q> <q>copylefted software</q>
+and other categories of software relate to each other.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Sometimes government <a id="exportcontrol">export control regulations</a>
+and trade sanctions can constrain your freedom to distribute copies of
+programs internationally. Software developers do not have the power to
+eliminate or override these restrictions, but what they can and must do
+is refuse to impose them as conditions of use of the program. In this
+way, the restrictions will not affect activities and people outside the
+jurisdictions of these governments.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Most free software licenses are based on copyright, and there are limits
+on what kinds of requirements can be imposed through copyright. If a
+copyright-based license respects freedom in the ways described above, it
+is unlikely to have some other sort of problem that we never anticipated
+(though this does happen occasionally). However, some free software
+licenses are based on contracts, and contracts can impose a much larger
+range of possible restrictions. That means there are many possible ways
+such a license could be unacceptably restrictive and non-free.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We can't possibly list all the ways that might happen. If a
+contract-based license restricts the user in an unusual way that
+copyright-based licenses cannot, and which isn't mentioned here as
+legitimate, we will have to think about it, and we will probably conclude
+it is non-free.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+When talking about free software, it is best to avoid using terms
+like <q>give away</q> or <q>for free,</q> because those terms imply that
+the issue is about price, not freedom. Some common terms such
+as <q>piracy</q> embody opinions we hope you won't endorse. See
+<a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">Confusing Words and Phrases that
+are Worth Avoiding</a> for a discussion of these terms. We also have
+a list of <a href="/philosophy/fs-translations.html">translations of
+<q>free software</q></a> into various languages.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Finally, note that criteria such as those stated in this free software
+definition require careful thought for their interpretation. To decide
+whether a specific software license qualifies as a free software license,
+we judge it based on these criteria to determine whether it fits their
+spirit as well as the precise words. If a license includes unconscionable
+restrictions, we reject it, even if we did not anticipate the issue
+in these criteria. Sometimes a license requirement raises an issue
+that calls for extensive thought, including discussions with a lawyer,
+before we can decide if the requirement is acceptable. When we reach
+a conclusion about a new issue, we often update these criteria to make
+it easier to see why certain licenses do or don't qualify.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+If you are interested in whether a specific license qualifies as a free
+software license, see our <a href="/licenses/license-list.html">list
+of licenses</a>. If the license you are concerned with is not
+listed there, you can ask us about it by sending us email at
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+If you are contemplating writing a new license, please contact the FSF
+by writing to that address. The proliferation of different free software
+licenses means increased work for users in understanding the licenses;
+we may be able to help you find an existing Free Software license that
+meets your needs.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+If that isn't possible, if you really need a new license, with our
+help you can ensure that the license really is a Free Software license
+and avoid various practical problems.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p>
+Another group has started using the term <q>open source</q> to mean
+something close (but not identical) to <q>free software.</q> We prefer
+the term <q>free software</q> because, once you have heard it refers to
+freedom rather than price, <a href="free-software-for-freedom.html">it
+calls to mind freedom</a>. The word <q>open</q> never does that.
+</p>
+
+<hr />
+
+<h4><a href="/philosophy/philosophy.html">Other Texts to Read</a></h4>
+
+<div class="translations">
+<p><a id="translations"></a>
+<b>Translations of this page</b>:<br />
+
+<!-- Please keep this list alphabetical, and in the original -->
+<!-- language if possible, otherwise default to English -->
+<!-- If you do not have it English, please comment what the -->
+<!-- English is. If you add a new language here, please -->
+<!-- advise address@hidden and add it to -->
+<!-- - in /home/www/bin/nightly-vars either TAGSLANG or WEBLANG -->
+<!-- - in /home/www/html/server/standards/README.translations.html -->
+<!-- one of the lists under the section "Translations Underway" -->
+<!-- - if there is a translation team, you also have to add an alias -->
+<!-- to mail.gnu.org:/com/mailer/aliases -->
+<!-- Please also check you have the 2 letter language code right versus -->
+<!-- http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm -->
+[
+ <a
href="/philosophy/free-sw.ar.html">العربية</a>
<!-- Arabic -->
+| <a
href="/philosophy/free-sw.bg.html">български</a>
<!-- Bulgarian -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.ca.html">Català</a> <!-- Catalan -->
+
+<!-- Chinese (Simplified) -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.cn.html">简体中文</a>
+
+<!-- Chinese (Traditional) -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.zh.html">繁體中文</a>
+
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.cs.html">Česky</a> <!-- Czech -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.da.html">Dansk</a> <!-- Danish -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.de.html">Deutsch</a> <!-- German -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">English</a>
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.el.html">Îλληνικά</a> <!--Greek-->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.es.html">Español</a> <!-- Spanish -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.eo.html">Esperanto</a>
+
+<!-- Persian/Farsi -->
+| <a
href="/philosophy/free-sw.fa.html">فارسی</a>
+
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.fr.html">Français</a> <!-- French -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.gl.html">Galego</a> <!-- Galician -->
+| <a
href="/philosophy/free-sw.he.html">עברית</a>
<!-- Hebrew -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.hr.html">Hrvatski</a> <!-- Croatian -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.id.html">Bahasa Indonesia</a> <!-- Indonesian
-->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.it.html">Italiano</a> <!-- Italian -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.ja.html">日本語</a> <!--
Japanese -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.ko.html">한국어</a> <!--
Korean -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.hu.html">Magyar</a> <!-- Hungarian -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.nl.html">Nederlands</a> <!-- Dutch -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.no.html">Norsk</a> <!-- Norwegian -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.pl.html">Polski</a> <!-- Polish -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.pt.html">Português</a> <!-- Portuguese
-->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.ro.html">Română</a> <!--
Romanian -->
+| <a
href="/philosophy/free-sw.ru.html">Русский</a>
<!-- Russian -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.sl.html">Slovinsko</a> <!--- Slovenian -->
+| <a
href="/philosophy/free-sw.sr.html">Српски</a>
<!-- Serbian -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.tl.html">Tagalog</a> <!-- Tagalog -->
+| <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.tr.html">Türkçe</a> <!--
Turkish -->
+]
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="copyright">
+<p>
+Return to the <a href="/home.html">GNU Project home page</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
+There are also <a href="/home.html#ContactInfo">other ways to contact</a>
+the FSF.
+<br />
+Please send broken links and other corrections (or suggestions) to
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Please see the
+<a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting
+translations of this article.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free
+Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+02110, USA
+<br />
+Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is
+permitted in any medium without royalty provided this notice is
+preserved.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2006/10/12 02:24:27 $ $Author: sinuhe $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+
+</body>
+</html>
Index: free-sw.html
===================================================================
RCS file: free-sw.html
diff -N free-sw.html
--- free-sw.html 11 Oct 2006 15:50:47 -0000 1.48
+++ /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
@@ -1,381 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="/gnu.css"?>
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
- "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en">
-
-<head>
-<title>
-The Free Software Definition - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
-</title>
-<link rev="made" href="mailto:address@hidden"; />
-</head>
-
-<!-- This document is in XML and XHTML. -->
-<!-- Please ensure that your final document is -->
-<!-- consistent with W3C XHTML and CSS standards -->
-<!-- Also, see validator.w3.org -->
-
-<body>
-
-<div id="header">
- <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/join/gnu";>
- <img src="/graphics/dbd.png"
- alt="[Join the FSF Campaign to Eliminate DRM]" />
- </a>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<p><a href="#translations">Translations</a> of this page</p>
-
-<h3>The Free Software Definition</h3>
-<p>
-<a href="/graphics/philosophicalgnu.html">
- <img src="/graphics/philosophical-gnu-sm.jpg"
- alt=" [image of a Philosophical Gnu] "
- width="160px"
- height="200px" />
-</a>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-We maintain this free software definition to show clearly what must
-be true about a particular software program for it to be considered
-free software.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q>Free software</q> is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand
-the concept, you should think of <q>free</q> as in <q>free speech,</q>
-not as in <q>free beer.</q>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute,
-study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to
-four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:
-</p>
-
-<ul>
- <li>The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).</li>
- <li>The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to
- your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition
- for this.
- </li>
- <li>The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
- (freedom 2).
- </li>
- <li>The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements
- to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3).
- Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
- </li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>
-A program is free software if users have all of these freedoms. Thus,
-you should be free to redistribute copies, either with or without
-modifications, either gratis or charging a fee for distribution, to
-<a href="#exportcontrol">anyone anywhere</a>. Being free to do these
-things means (among other things) that you do not have to ask or pay
-for permission.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-You should also have the freedom to make modifications and use them
-privately in your own work or play, without even mentioning that they
-exist. If you do publish your changes, you should not be required to
-notify anyone in particular, or in any particular way.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The freedom to run the program means the freedom for any kind of person
-or organization to use it on any kind of computer system, for any kind of
-overall job and purpose, without being required to communicate about it
-with the developer or any other specific entity. In this freedom, it is
-the <em>user's</em> purpose that matters, not the <em>developer's</em>
-purpose; you as a user are free to run a program for your purposes,
-and if you distribute it to someone else, she is then free to run it
-for her purposes, but you are not entitled to impose your purposes on her.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The freedom to redistribute copies must include binary or executable
-forms of the program, as well as source code, for both modified and
-unmodified versions. (Distributing programs in runnable form is necessary
-for conveniently installable free operating systems.) It is ok if there
-is no way to produce a binary or executable form for a certain program
-(since some languages don't support that feature), but you must have the
-freedom to redistribute such forms should you find or develop a way to
-make them.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-In order for the freedoms to make changes, and to publish improved
-versions, to be meaningful, you must have access to the source code of
-the program. Therefore, accessibility of source code is a necessary
-condition for free software.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-One important way to modify a program is by merging in available
-free subroutines and modules. If the program's license says that you
-cannot merge in an existing module, such as if it requires you to be the
-copyright holder of any code you add, then the license is too restrictive
-to qualify as free.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-In order for these freedoms to be real, they must be irrevocable as
-long as you do nothing wrong; if the developer of the software has the
-power to revoke the license, without your doing anything to give cause,
-the software is not free.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-However, certain kinds of rules about the manner of distributing free
-software are acceptable, when they don't conflict with the central
-freedoms. For example, copyleft (very simply stated) is the rule that
-when redistributing the program, you cannot add restrictions to deny
-other people the central freedoms. This rule does not conflict with
-the central freedoms; rather it protects them.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-You may have paid money to get copies of free software, or you may have
-obtained copies at no charge. But regardless of how you got your copies,
-you always have the freedom to copy and change the software, even to
-<a href="/philosophy/selling.html">sell copies</a>.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<q>Free software</q> does not mean <q>non-commercial.</q> A free
-program must be available for commercial use, commercial development,
-and commercial distribution. Commercial development of free software
-is no longer unusual; such free commercial software is very important.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Rules about how to package a modified version are acceptable, if they
-don't substantively block your freedom to release modified versions, or
-your freedom to make and use modified versions privately. Rules that <q>if
-you make your version available in this way, you must make it available in
-that way also</q> can be acceptable too, on the same condition. (Note that
-such a rule still leaves you the choice of whether to publish your version
-at all.) Rules that require release of source code to the users for
-versions that you put into public use are also acceptable. It is also
-acceptable for the license to require that, if you have distributed a
-modified version and a previous developer asks for a copy of it, you
-must send one, or that you identify yourself on your modifications.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-In the GNU project, we use
-<q><a href="/copyleft/copyleft.html">copyleft</a></q>
-to protect these freedoms legally for everyone. But
-<a href="/philosophy/categories.html#Non-CopyleftedFreeSoftware">non-copylefted
-free software</a> also exists. We believe there are important reasons why
-<a href="/philosophy/pragmatic.html"> it is better to use copyleft</a>,
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-See <a href="/philosophy/categories.html">Categories of Free Software</a>
-for a description of how <q>free software,</q> <q>copylefted software</q>
-and other categories of software relate to each other.
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-eliminate or override these restrictions, but what they can and must do
-is refuse to impose them as conditions of use of the program. In this
-way, the restrictions will not affect activities and people outside the
-jurisdictions of these governments.
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-<p>
-Most free software licenses are based on copyright, and there are limits
-on what kinds of requirements can be imposed through copyright. If a
-copyright-based license respects freedom in the ways described above, it
-is unlikely to have some other sort of problem that we never anticipated
-(though this does happen occasionally). However, some free software
-licenses are based on contracts, and contracts can impose a much larger
-range of possible restrictions. That means there are many possible ways
-such a license could be unacceptably restrictive and non-free.
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-We can't possibly list all the ways that might happen. If a
-contract-based license restricts the user in an unusual way that
-copyright-based licenses cannot, and which isn't mentioned here as
-legitimate, we will have to think about it, and we will probably conclude
-it is non-free.
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-When talking about free software, it is best to avoid using terms
-like <q>give away</q> or <q>for free,</q> because those terms imply that
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-the term <q>free software</q> because, once you have heard it refers to
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