FLISOL Libre

Free Software philosophy

Free Software is software that respects 4 essential freedoms:

0. the freedom to run the software for any purpose, whenever you wish. If someone limits how or when you can run the software, or what you can do with it, you experience moral and financial harm.

1. the freedom to study the software, and adapt it such that it does what you wish. You need source code to do this. If you cannot study the software, you can never be sure it doesn't do things you don't want it to do, or that it does correctly what it claims to do, so you may experience moral and financial harm. If you cannot adapt the software to your evolving needs, either it becomes useless or you must stop your needs from evolving, so you experience moral and financial harm.

2. the freedom to distribute the software as you have received it to whoever you wish, and to publish it, whenever you wish. If you are prohibited from sharing the software, your community is morally and financially harmed, and thus so are you, because one of the foundations of life in society is sharing. If you cannot charge for distribution, then you can only do it at your own expense, so you and your community are morally and financially harmed.

3. the freedom to improve the software and distribute or publish your modifications, whenever you wish, such that you can contribute your improvements to your community. If you cannot do so, your community is morally and financially harmed, and thus so are you. If you are not free to keep your private changes to yourself, you suffer financially, for you must distribute them at your own expenses, and morally, because this freedom was turned into an obligation. You need source code to improve the software.

If any of these freedoms is substantially limited for you, the Software is non-Free for you. For example, if law requires you to obtain permission from someone in order to enjoy certain freedoms, and the permission is denied, the Software is non-Free for you. If you enter an agreement with someone, and conditions in the agreement prevent you from enjoying certain freedoms, the Software is non-Free for you.

Whoever refuses to grant you permissions or imposes restrictions, such that you are denied substantial enjoyment of the freedoms, causes you moral and financial harm. But harming someone, with intent to do so, is unethical. Therefore, disrespecting any of the four essential freedoms for software users is unethical.

A community protects its members from unethical behavior by establishing rules that tell what is good from what is bad for the community, i.e., what is moral from what is immoral.

Now, tolerance for unethical behavior, in which one member of the community is harmed by another, for the benefit of the other, is bad for the community, because then the only thing that would stop the aggressor from harming more and more community members is its very ethics, which, given the previous unethical behavior, are known to be amiss. Therefore, tolerating such unethical behaviors is immoral. Good community members must defend themselves and their community from such aggressions.

If someone disrespects your freedoms over software, keep in mind that this behavior is unethical (will harm you), and that tolerating this behavior is immoral (will harm your community).

Good community members must defend themselves and their community from such aggressions, by fighting the disrespect, rejecting the non-Free Software, and educating and encouraging other community members to do so.

¿Cosas que no deben suceder?

• Instalar software Privativo
• Omitir hablarles a los asistentes sobre la importancia de la libertad

¿Cosas que pueden pasar?

Lista de componentes privativos que se instalan por omisión en

Ubuntu

Fedora

Debian