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Peru Passes Free Software Law - That's Free as in Free Speech
Peru has passed its law encouraging procurement of Free Software by the government.
The law (English Translation) defines free software and proprietary software by means of the
licenses:
1. Free Software: is software whose license guarantees the
following: unrestricted use of the program for your own use;
unrestricted right to study the code and figure out how the
program works; to make and distribute copies of the program; to
modify the program and freely distribute the modifications under
the same free conditions as the original program.
2. Proprietary software: is software whose license does not
permit you to do any or all of the things listed in the above
definition.
Source: Groklaw.net
