What are the FSFs four freedoms?
• The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). • The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). • The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2). • The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). are the Free Software Foundation’s articulation what it believes all software users deserve. (Note that full exercise of Freedoms 1 and 3 requires access to the source code.) They are elegantly phrased, and arguably an improvement in some ways on the earlier DFSG. However they refer to exactly the same set of freedoms as the DFSG. If a license is inconsistent with the FSF’s four freedoms, you can be sure that Debian will also consider it non-free. The term four freedoms is a play on words over the influential four freedoms speech of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in which he outlined the following four freedoms: Freedom of
• The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). • The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). • The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2). • The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). are the Free Software Foundation’s articulation of what it believes all software users deserve. (Note that full exercise of Freedoms 1 and 3 requires access to the source code.) They are elegantly phrased, and arguably an improvement in some ways on the earlier DFSG. However they refer to exactly the same set of freedoms as the DFSG. If a license is inconsistent with the FSF’s four freedoms, you can be sure that Debian will also consider it non-free. The term four freedoms is a play on words over the influential four freedoms speech of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in which he outlined the following four freedoms: Freedom
