From e0cb7bee715e49e7d882de821d39bdbf8d600401 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 21:15:26 +0200 Subject: website: free-software: Add note on "open source". * website/free-software.md: Add note about "open source". --- website/free-software.md | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/website/free-software.md b/website/free-software.md index d173927..65bca7d 100644 --- a/website/free-software.md +++ b/website/free-software.md @@ -5,9 +5,10 @@ author: The GNU Assembly # What’s “free software”? The GNU Assembly produces _free software_, also referred to as “_libre_ -software”, “liberating software”, or “open source”. Software is “free” -if it _respects its user’s freedom_, namely the following four essential -freedoms: +software”, “liberating software”, or “open source” — though we think +this last one fails to convey the main idea, as we shall see. Software +is “free” if it _respects its user’s freedom_, namely the following four +essential freedoms: 1. The freedom to run the program as the user wishes, for any purpose. 2. The freedom to study how the program works and to change it to suit -- cgit v1.2.1