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What is free software?

Free software is software that respects the 4 software freedoms. The 4 freedoms are

The freedom to run the run the program
The freedom to study the source code
The freedom to modify the source code
The freedom to distribute modified versions of the source code

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FSF to be deposed in SFC v Vizio, updates relevant FAQ entry — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software (www.fsf.org)

submitted 4 months ago by possiblylinux127 to c/freesoftware

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Users being able to enforce GPL compliance from companies would be a massive win for user software freedom. More eyeballs to find and more wallets to potentially take legal action, rather than just the dev holding the copyright.

Hopefully companies will take this as a reason to stop their flippant refusal to share the source code they modified from copyleft licensed code and less legal action is even required.