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The book is available online allowing verbatim (without making changes) copying and distribution of the whole collection, while each essay is licensed under
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and explains Stallman's personal background on starting the GNU Project. It contains the original announcement of the project which became part of
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is a collection of writings (mostly essays, with occasional articles, interviews and speech transcripts) by
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Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
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Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
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Translations of โ€œFree Softwareโ€ and โ€œGratis Softwareโ€
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Index


GNU Press
ISBN
978-0-9831592-0-9
Richard Stallman
GNU Project
Free Software Foundation
Free Software movement
Free software licenses
GPL
proprietary software
Lawrence Lessig
Harvard Law School
Creative Commons
CC BY-ND 4.0 International License
GNU Press
four essential software freedoms
free software
GNU Manifesto
intellectual property
GNU/Linux naming controversy
The Right to Read
copyleft
GNU General Public License
GNU Lesser General Public License
GNU Free Documentation License
DRM
software as a service
The Free Software Song
Free and open-source software portal

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