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Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> "Liberated" is actually a little closer to what I think they were
> shooting for.  However, that word implies previous enslavement,
> which isn't quite right either.

The EU is using the term "libre software", I think, to avoid such
connotations.