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<h3>The Free Software Definition</h3> |
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are many possible ways such a license could be unacceptably |
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restrictive and non-free.</p> |
restrictive and non-free.</p> |
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We can't possibly list all the possible contract restrictions that |
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would be unacceptable. If a contract-based license restricts the user |
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in an unusual way that copyright-based licenses cannot, and which |
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isn't mentioned here as legitimate, we will have to think about it, |
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and we will probably decide it is non-free.</p> |
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When talking about free software, it is best to avoid using terms like |
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``give away'' or ``for free'', because those terms imply that the |
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