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