Educational institutions of all levels should use and teach #FreeSoftware because it is the only software that allows them to accomplish their essential missions: to disseminate human knowledge and to prepare students to be good members of their community.
Q: If I only make copies of a GPL-covered program and run them, without distributing or conveying them to others, what does the license require of me? A: Nothing. The GPL does not place any conditions on this activity.
As for free software, I consider it to be a public good that can benefit humanity. - Adrien Béraud. Read more in our #WorkingTogether series: https://u.fsf.org/409
Q: If I only make copies of a GPL-covered program and run them, without distributing or conveying them to others, what does the license require of me? A: Nothing. The GPL does not place any conditions on this activity.
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From the preamble of the GNU GPL: "To protect your rights, we need to prevent others from denying you these rights or asking you to surrender the rights. Therefore, you have certain responsibilities [...]"
Creating things, helping other projects, and sharing all kinds of knowledge has been important to me for a long time. It's harsh when you cannot understand or discover how something works or modify it the way you want to use it. - Sébastien Blin. Read more in our #WorkingTogether series: https://u.fsf.org/409
Interested to learn more about the FSF board nomination and review process? This post details the nomination process along with a helpful chart of the procedure: https://u.fsf.org/3wa
Read why "Web Environment Integrity" is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's latest maneuver, if we don't act now to stop it, threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice:
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From the preamble of the GNU GPL: "[T]he GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users. [...]"