author - "John Goerzen and Ossama Othman"
Debian is free in this sense: You are free tomodify and redistribute it and will always have access to the source codefor this purpose. The Debian Free Software Guidelines describe in moredetail exactly what is meant by ``free.'' The Free Software Foundation,originator of the GNU Project, is another excellent source of information.You can find a more detailed discussion of free software on the Debian website. One of the most well-known works in this field is Richard M.Stallman's essay, Why Software Should Be Free; take a look at it for someinsight into why we support Free Software as we do. Recently, some peoplehave started calling Free Software ``Open Source Software''; the two termsare interchangable.
You may wonder why would people spend hours of their own time writingsoftware and carefully packaging it, only to give it all away. The answersare as varied as the people who contribute.
Many believe in sharing information and having the freedom to c
Debian is free in this sense: You are free tomodify and redistribute it and will always have access to the source codefor this purpose. The Debian Free Software Guidelines describe in moredetail exactly what is meant by ``free.'' The Free Software Foundation,originator of the GNU Project, is another excellent source of information.You can find a more detailed discussion of free software on the Debian website. One of the most well-known works in this field is Richard M.Stallman's essay, Why Software Should Be Free; take a look at it for someinsight into why we support Free Software as we do. Recently, some peoplehave started calling Free Software ``Open Source Software''; the two termsare interchangable.
You may wonder why would people spend hours of their own time writingsoftware and carefully packaging it, only to give it all away. The answersare as varied as the people who contribute.
Many believe in sharing information and having the freedom to c