Yes, you need to have them available, not because you'll necessarily use
them, but because someone else will, be it the person who gave it a
copy, the other which received a copy from you, the thirty fifth
genration of people who receive copies from your generation.

You never know the econimic and social scenario these people will be
under, they can be in a desert, a censorship regime or a place without
Internet. At the same time their status presses them, the restrictions
on freedom 2 and 3 would also do the same in such status. What good
would it be if a given person in a community without Internet would be
forbidden to distribute original and modified copies? Even if the person
doesn't do such things and instead goes on into "doing fixing service"
for that software, it would again be characterized as distribution
(because the person already knows what to do, so they do it over and
over). As for the distribution of originals, it all goes back to the
pressed situation again, because the person could help others which are
under such case too but which aren't fortunate enough to have such
software to help their daily lives. In all cases, the second half of
"distribution", selling, is also important, otherwise how would that
person reward himself for the work they do in that scenario?

2018-01-29T23:30:29+0100 [email protected] wrote:
> If a program is good (works as expected, doesn't spy or damage data)
> and gives you freedom 0 and 1 - do you really need freedom 2 and 3?
>

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