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Free Software is software wich the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve. . Whith theses rigths users can have control over the software they use, and can share whith one another. .

These rights may be merely availiable (public domain) or established by a license, called « free license », based on copyright. The « copyleft licences » make sure that these rigths remains availiable to users of eriavative work.

Free software is an alternative to non-free software often called « proprietary ». These softwares are considered by a part of free software comunity to be an an instrument of unjust power, allowing developers to control users. .

Free software is not :
 * freeware : a freeware is a software that you can get at no cost, where free softwae is defined by freedoms granted to users. The nature or free softare makes it easy to share it, which tends to make it free of charge in most cases. That being said free software is not incompatible with rentability mainly trough services. Les rémunérations sont liées par exemple aux travaux de création, de development, de mise à disposition et de soutien technique. D'un autre coté les logiciels gratuits ne sont pas nécessairement libres, car leur code source n'est pas systématiquement accessible, et leur licence peut ne pas correspondre à la définition du logiciel libre.
 * open source : Free software is, according to its fonder, a social mouvementl ; open source, described in The Cathedral and the Bazaar, s'attache aux avantages d'une méthode de développement au travers de la réutilisation du source code.