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  1. .Dd $Mdocdate: April 16 2016 $
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  2. .Dt FSDG 7
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  3. .Os
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  4. .Sh NAME
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  5. .Nm fsdg
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  6. .Nd free software distribution guidelines
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  8. .Sh DESCRIPTION
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  9. The Free Software Distribution Guidelines (GNU FSDG) are
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  10. a set of guidelines put in place by the Free Software Foundation
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  11. to define what is required for an operating system to respect the
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  12. user's freedom and be considered a fully free operating system.
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  13. The LibertyBSD project strives to be fully Free Software and follow these
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  14. guidelines.
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  16. .Sh GUIDELINES
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  17. Summarized, fully free distributions must be:
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  18. .Bl -enum
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  19. .It
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  20. Self-hosting
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  21. .It
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  22. Fully Free Software
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  23. .It
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  24. Containing only free functional data and documentation
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  25. .It
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  26. Deblobbed of non-free firmware 
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  27. .It
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  28. Unhindered in excerising the four freedoms by trademark law
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  29. .It
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  30. Without DRM, back-doors, and spyware
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  31. .It
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  32. Committed to correcting mistakes
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  33. .It
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  34. Actively maintained
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  36. Without a misleading name
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  39. .Sh SEE ALSO
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  40. .Xr free-software 7
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  42. .Sh HISTORY
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  43. The fsdg(7) page appeared in LibertyBSD 5.9.
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