Freedom 1 includes the freedom to use your changed version in place of
the original. If the program is delivered in a product designed to
run someone else's modified versions but refuse to run yours —
a practice known as “tivoization” or (through
blacklisting) as “secure boot” — freedom 1 becomes a
theoretical fiction rather than a practical freedom. This is not
sufficient. In other words, these binaries are not free software
even if the source code they are compiled from is free.
The Free Software Definition - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) - 0 views
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In order for these freedoms to be real, they must be permanent and irrevocable as long as you do nothing wrong; if the developer of the software has the power to revoke the license, or retroactively change its terms, without your doing anything wrong to give cause, the software is not free.
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For example, copyleft (very simply stated) is the rule that when redistributing the program, you cannot add restrictions to deny other people the central freedoms. This rule does not conflict with the central freedoms; rather it protects them.
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