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# Line 128  money or in kind, to exercise them, is t Line 128  money or in kind, to exercise them, is t
128  freedoms in question, and thus renders the program nonfree.  freedoms in question, and thus renders the program nonfree.
129  </p>  </p>
130    
131  <p>The rest of this page clarifies certain points about what makes  <h3>Clarifying the line at various points</h3>
132  specific freedoms adequate or not.</p>  
133    <p>In the rest of this article we expain more precisely how far the
134    various freedoms need to extend, on various issues, in order for a
135    program to be free.</p>
136    
137  <h4>The freedom to run the program as you wish</h4>  <h4>The freedom to run the program as you wish</h4>
138    
# Line 155  particular computing activity.</p> Line 158  particular computing activity.</p>
158    
159  <p>  <p>
160  In order for freedoms 1 and 3 (the freedom to make changes and the  In order for freedoms 1 and 3 (the freedom to make changes and the
161  freedom to publish the changed versions) to be meaningful, you must have  freedom to publish the changed versions) to be meaningful, you need to have
162  access to the source code of the program.  Therefore, accessibility of  access to the source code of the program.  Therefore, accessibility of
163  source code is a necessary condition for free software.  Obfuscated  source code is a necessary condition for free software.  Obfuscated
164  &ldquo;source code&rdquo; is not real source code and does not count  &ldquo;source code&rdquo; is not real source code and does not count
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