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  <title>The Free Software Definition - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)</title>
- <meta http-equiv="Keywords" content="GNU, FSF, Free Software Foundation, Linux, Emacs, GCC, UNIX, Free Software, Operating System, GNU Kernel, HURD, GNU HURD, Hurd" />
+ <meta http-equiv="Keywords" content="GNU, FSF, Free Software Foundation, Linux, Emacs, GCC, Unix, Free Software, Operating System, GNU Kernel, HURD, GNU HURD, Hurd" />
- <meta http-equiv="Description" content="Since 1983, developing the free UNIX style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use." />
+ <meta http-equiv="Description" content="Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use." />
  <link rel="alternate" title="What's New" href="http://www.gnu.org/rss/whatsnew.rss" type="application/rss+xml" />
  <link rel="alternate" title="New Free Software" href="http://www.gnu.org/rss/quagga.rss" type="application/rss+xml" />
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 help you can ensure that the license rea
  and avoid various practical problems.
  </p>
- <h2>Open Source?</h2>
+ <h2 id="beyond-software">Beyond Software</h2>
+ <p>
+ <a href="free-doc.html">Software manuals must be free</a>, for the same
+ reasons that software must be free, and because the manuals are in effect
+ part of the software.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The same arguments also make sense for other kinds of works of
+ practical use -- that is to say, works that embody useful knowledge,
+ such as educational works and reference
+ works.  <a href="http://wikipedia.org"> Wikipedia </a> is the best known
+ example.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Any kind of work <em>can</em> be free, and the definition of free software
+ has been extended to a definition of <a href="http://freedomdefined.org/">
+ free cultural works</a> applicable to any kind of works.
+ </p>
+ <h2 id="open-source">Open Source?</h2>
  <p>
  Another group has started using the term <q>open source</q> to mean
- something close (but not identical) to <q>free software.</q>  We prefer
+ something close (but not identical) to <q>free software.</q>  We
- the term <q>free software</q> because, once you have heard it refers to
+ prefer the term <q>free software</q> because, once you have heard that
- freedom rather than price, <a href="free-software-for-freedom.html">it
+ it refers to freedom rather than price, it calls to mind freedom.
- calls to mind freedom</a>.  The word <q>open</q> never does that.
+ The word <q>open</q> <a href="open-source-misses-the-point.html">
+ never refers to freedom </a>.
  </p>
  <p><a href="/philosophy/philosophy.html">Other Texts to Read</a></p>
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