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Four essential freedoms

The freedom to

  1. run software
    as you wish, for any purpose
  2. study and change software
    so it does your computing as you wish
  3. redistribute software as is
    so you can help others
  4. distribute software with your changes
    so you can help others 12.

Footnotes

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Freedoms 1 and 3 require the program to be open-source.

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