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Clarify whose purpose is significant in the freedom to run the program
for any purpose.


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notify anyone in particular, or in any particular way.</p>
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The freedom to use a run the program means the freedom for any kind of
person or organization to use it on any kind of computer system, for
any kind of overall job, job and purpose, without being required to
communicate subsequently about it with the developer or any other specific entity.</p> entity.
In this freedom, it is the <em>user's</em> purpose that matters, not
the <em>developer's</em> purpose; you as a user are free to run a
program for your purposes, and if you distribute it to someone else,
she is then free to run it for her purposes, but you are not entitled
to impose your purposes on her.
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The freedom to redistribute copies must include binary or executable
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