Thanks for setting up this sublemmy! Looking forward to seeing what others share

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    From GNU’s official website, “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 “free beer”. We sometimes call it “libre software,” borrowing the French or Spanish word for “free” as in freedom, to show we do not mean the software is gratis.

    Yes, it would be open source but not libre.

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      I don’t see there where it contradicts my point tho, since I never mentioned price anywhere. It just says that Libre has the meaning of limitation on the distribution or improvement of the product. If the license prohibits you fo redistributing the software but not changing it’s code I do believe that would be still libre no?

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          I see, in that case I agree with you then!