libre
Especially of the will: free, independent, unconstrained.
Adjective
- Especially of the will: free, independent, unconstrained.
- He [God] Adame lent a libre will to follow what he liſt, / And with his holy ſpirit, and grace his choſen dois aſſiſt: [...] - 1599, Alexander Hume, “Of Gods Benefites Bestowed vpon Man”, in Hymnes, or Sacred Songs,...
- With very few limitations on distribution or the right to access the source code to create improved versions, but not necessarily free of charge.
- One more point leads toward Free Software in education: when students get jobs, they prefer to use tools they learned at school in order to minimize extra learning efforts. This fact should lead colleges to teach only...
- The great potential of libre software for development and social inclusion has long been emphasized. The cost aspect of it, though it might act as a driver, is only one limited aspect of the benefits of libre software...
- The formal definition of Open Access, however, does require re-use rights to enable the article to be re-used in various ways (text-mined, translated into other languages, used in part in other products, etc.), [...]....
Synonyms: free free as in speech free as in freedom
Coordinate Terms: free free of charge free as in beer costless feeless gratis
- Not enslaved (of a black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans).
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:libre.
Origin
The obsolete “unconstrained” sense is borrowed from French libre (“at liberty”; “free” as in “clear”, “vacant”, “without obligation”), from Latin līber (“free, unrestricted”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”), whence obsolete English lede (“person(s)”), English leud, and German Leute. The software and the unenslaved senses are either borrowed from the above French, or from its Spanish cognate libre, of the same meaning and Latin etymon.
Derived
Noun
- A free (not enslaved) black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:libre.