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Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be Free Incest Stories copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions only to ensure that Free Incest Stories further recipients can also do these things. To make these acts possible, the human readable form of the Free Incest Stories program (the "source code") must be made available. The source code may be either accompanied by a notice granting the above permissions (a free software licence), or, much less commonly, the source code can be released into public domain. The free software movement was Free Incest Stories launched in 1983 to make these freedoms available to every computer user.
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