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What's at stake is your freedom, and your community. +</p> + +<p> +The idea of the Free Software Movement is that computer users <a +href="/philosophy/why-free.html">deserve the freedom to form a +community</a>. You should have the freedom to help yourself, by +changing the source code to do whatever you need to do. And the +freedom to help your neighbor, by redistributing copies of programs to +other people. Also the freedom to help build your community, by +publishing improved versions so that other people can use them. +</p> + +<p> +Whether a program is free software depends mainly on its license. +However, a program can also be non-free because you don't have access +to its source code, or because hardware won't let you put a modified +version into use (this is called “tivoization”). +</p> + +<p> +Our <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">detailed definition</a> of free +software shows how we evaluate a license to see if it makes programs +free software. We also have articles about <a +href="/philosophy/essays-and-articles.html#LicensingFreeSoftware">certain +specific licenses</a> explaining the advantages and disadvantages of +some licenses that do qualify, and why some other licenses are too +restrictive to qualify. +</p> + +<p> +In 1998 the term “open source” was coined and associated +with <a href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">views +considerably different from ours</a>. These views cite only the +practical advantages of free software, and carefully avoid the deeper +issues of freedom and social solidarity that the Free Software +Movement raises. The idea of open source is good as far as it goes, +but it only scratches the surface of the issue. We don't mind working +with supporters of open source on practical activities such as +software development, but we do not agree with their views, and we +decline to operate under their name.</p> + +<p> +If you think that freedom and community are important for their own +sake, please join us in proudly using the term “free +software”, and help spread the word. +</p> +</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> +<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> +<div id="footer"> +<div class="unprintable"> + +<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to <a +href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. There are also <a +href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> the FSF. 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