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date: 2012-02-20 07:46:37 +0000;  author: rms;  state: Exp;  lines: +10 -4;  commitid: tuW9y0P88TvlTRTv;
Clarify 1.77 by saying that only retroactive _restrictions_ are unacceptable.


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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 add
restrictions to its terms, without your doing anything wrong to give
cause, the software is not free.
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<li><a href="http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/www/philosophy/free-sw.html?root=www&r1=1.110&r2=1.111">Version
1.111</a>: Clarify 1.77 by saying that only
retroactive <em>restrictions</em> are unacceptable.  The copyright
holders can always grant additional <em>permission</em> for use of the
work by releasing the work in another way in parallel.</li>

<li><a href="http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/www/philosophy/free-sw.html?root=www&r1=1.104&r2=1.105">Version
1.105</a>: Reflect, in the brief statement of freedom 1, the point
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