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Free software
Free software is software which can be used, copied, redistributed, and whose source code can be viewed, modified, and also redistributed.
The term "open-source software" is sometimes used as a near-synonym, but this term is problematic, so we will use the original term "free software" on this wiki. (For a discussion of the problems, see Why “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software)
Free software and software patents
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