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

Charlie Gibbs <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.freeware,alt.os.linux.mint,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 2026-06-30, german newsgroups <[email protected]> wrote:

> Le 29/06/2026 à 19:44, Mr. Man-wai Chang a écrit :
>
>> On 6/29/2026 8:59 PM, John C. wrote:
>>
>>> In software licensing, "libre" refers to freedom, not price. Borrowed
>>> from Romance languages, it is used to specifically distinguish ...
>> 
>> LibreOffice - Wikipedia
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice>
>> 
>> LibreOffice vs OpenOffice — LibreOffice
>> <https://www.libreoffice.org/libreoffice-vs-openoffice/>
>
> free means if you want, you could get the source, rewrite it
> et do a another version of the software !
> may be the name will be "caca version" because, a team is
> 10000 peoples !

Compare "free as in speech" with "free as in beer".

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