Subtitles: Marcel Kolaja, Czech Pirate Party
Now, each of these is literally the freedom to do certain things,
if you choose. None of them is an obligation.
None of them is obligatory.
So, you should be free to run the program as you wish.
But if you're a masochist and you choose to run the program
the way you don't wish, that's allowed too.
You should be free to study and change the source code.
But if you have no motivation to change it or if you don't know how,
you're welcome to run the program exactly the way you got it.
With Free Software, you're free to redistribute copies,
but you have no requirement to redistribute copies.
If a good friend asked for a copy,
you might feel a moral requirement to your friend
to distribute the copy.
But that's not a requirement of Free Software.
And if you make a modified version, you're free, with Free Software,
to distribute copies, but you're not required to.
You can modify the program and use your version yourself.
And not distribute it.
Although if a good friend asked for a copy, you might feel that you're obliged to do it
for friendship sake.
And you might conceivably feel that a certain improvement
is so important to the world that it would be wrong for you
to withhold it.
But these are not requirements of the nature of Free Software.
So, the idea of the Free Software movement
is to end the unjust power that developers of proprietary software
have over their users.
It's a movement for freedom for all software users.
And that's where I started from.
That's what led to my concern with other issues about copyright law,
with software patents, with Digital Restrictions Management.
And note that malicious features such as Digital Restrictions Management
are always implemented in proprietary software.
With Free Software, nobody has power over anybody else.
So, nobody is in a position to impose any particular limits of software
on anybody else.
Yes, theoretically, you could implement DRM in Free Software,
but the users could fix it.
Which means it woudn't really restrict anybody.
The people who are trying to restrict others,
they know that only proprietary software gives them the power to restrict others.
So, DRM is always implemented in proprietary software.
And this is just a consequence of the fact that if you're trying
to do evil to other people, you gotta have power to do it.
In a Free Society, it's hard for anybody to do this kind of evil.