Re: What does "libre" refer to in the context of a software license?

On 29/06/2026 12:59, John C. wrote:
> In software licensing, "libre" refers to freedom, not price. Borrowed
> from Romance languages, it is used to specifically distinguish software
> that grants users total liberty over their code (free as in speech) from
> software that is simply available at no monetary cost, or gratis (free
> as in beer).

Laughable, libre does not translate to liberte or liberty.

I does not grant 'total liberty over their code', quite the opposite. 
How can it.

"We grant you total liberty, you lucky lucky lowly oik, as long as you 
keep yer nose clean and do what we say i.e, abide by the four 
commandments or I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and 
furious anger". That's what it says. Don't shoot the messenger.

This is why I hate these people, not only do they come to tell us how 
much better they are than us scummy users of 'proprietary' software, but 
they wrap it up in a sloppy infantile inaccurate barely literate fairy 
story, and expect us to treat them seriously, and with reverence like 
they are disciples of the one true God.


> https://book.the-turing-way.org/reproducible-research/licensing/licensing-floss/
> 
> According to the Free Software Definition:
> 
> https://wikieducator.org/Libre

According to the book of Messiah, chapter 2, verse 6

> a "libre" software license must grant users four essential freedoms:

Opps what happened to liberty, suddenly I have an obligation.

<yada>

> Common examples of licenses that meet these "libre" criteria include the
> GNU General Public License (GPL) and permissive open-source licenses
> like the MIT and Apache licenses.

So, with MIT and Apache licenses you have the additional [greater] 
freedom to make your mod non-libre. Sound like real freedom to any of 
you. Oh, yes, they are not better than us, we are better than them. 
Arise pussies, and man the barricades!


> https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/open-source-license
> 
> Freeware, in the context of the main topic of this newsgroup, is
> software that requires no cost, monetary or otherwise, to use. Such
> software may or may not be "libre", because the four freedoms described
> above have nothing to do with the cost (to the end user) of running a
> program.

Well, there is a cost to GPL licensed software, verbal diarrhea. Why is 
mine any worse. It's just perception. I have a point. I'm a serious cat 
and the cost in lost opportunity from the implementation of this license 
is incalculable. Trillions of trillions probably. I'll tell you about it 
some time when the mob next call and do their preachy, preachy thing.


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