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+A free program must offer the four freedoms to any user that obtains a +copy of the software, provided the user has complied thus far with the +conditions of the free license covering the software. Putting some of +the freedoms off limits to some users, or requiring that users pay, in +money or in kind, to exercise them, is tantamount to not granting the +freedoms in question, and thus renders the program nonfree. +

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The rest of this page clarifies certain points about what makes specific freedoms adequate or not.

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