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-   <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.hr.html">Croatian</A>
+ <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.hr.html">Croatian</A>
+ | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.cs.html">Czech</A>
+ | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.da.html">Danish</A>
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+ | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.de.html">German</A>
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+ | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.ro.html">Romanian</A>
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  | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.sl.html">Slovenian</A>
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+ | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.sv.html">Swedish</A>
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 it refers to four kinds of freedom, for
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 it refers to four kinds of freedom, for
    <LI>The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
        (freedom 2).
    <LI>The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements
-      to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
+      to the public, so that the whole community benefits
        (freedom 3).   Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
  </UL>
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 with the developer or any other specific
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 with the developer or any other specific
  <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.  It is ok if there is no way to produce a binary
+ unmodified versions.  (Distributing programs in runnable form is
- or executable form (since some languages don't support that feature),
+ necessary for conveniently installable free operating systems.)  It is
- but you must have the freedom to redistribute such forms should you
+ ok if there is no way to produce a binary or executable form for a
- find or develop a way to make them.
+ 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>
  In order for the freedoms to make changes, and to publish improved
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 other people the central freedoms.  This
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 other people the central freedoms.  This
  the central freedoms; rather it protects them.
  <P>
- Thus, you may have paid money to get copies of GNU software, or you
+ Thus, 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>.
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 use of the program.  In this way, the re
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 use of the program.  In this way, the re
  activities and people outside the jurisdictions of these governments.
  <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>
+ We can't possibly list all the possible contract restrictions that
+ would be unacceptable.  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 decide it is non-free.
+ <P>
  When talking about free software, it is best to avoid using terms like
  ``give away'' or ``for free'', because those terms imply that the
  issue is about price, not freedom.  Some common terms such as
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 to mind freedom</A>.
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 to mind freedom</A>.
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-   <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.hr.html">Croatian</A>
+ <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.hr.html">Croatian</A>
+ | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.cs.html">Czech</A>
+ | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.da.html">Danish</A>
  | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.nl.html">Dutch</A>
  | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.html">English</A>
  | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.fr.html">French</A>
  | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.gl.html">Galician</A>
+ | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.de.html">German</A>
  | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.hu.html">Hungarian</A>
  | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.id.html">Indonesian</A>
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 to mind freedom</A>.
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 to mind freedom</A>.
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  | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.pl.html">Polish</A>
  | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.pt.html">Portuguese</A>
+ | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.ro.html">Romanian</A>
  | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.ru.html">Russian</A>
- | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.es.html">Slovenian</A>
+ | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.sl.html">Slovenian</A>
  | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.es.html">Spanish</A>
  | <A HREF="/philosophy/free-sw.tr.html">Turkish</A>
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 Please send comments on these web pages
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 Please send comments on these web pages
  send other questions to
  <A HREF="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><EM>gnu@gnu.org</EM></A>.
  <P>
- Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+ Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, Free
-Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111,  USA
+ Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
+,  USA
  <P>
  Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is
  permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.

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