What is free software?
GNU, 2023
Abstract
Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.

GNU, 2023
Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.

A program is free software if it gives users adequately all of these freedoms. Otherwise, it is nonfree. While we can distinguish various nonfree distribution schemes in terms of how far they fall short of being free, we consider them all equally unethical.