The invention of the term " free license " and the focus on the rights of users were connected to the sharing traditions of the hacker culture of the 1970s public domain software ecosystem, the social and political free software movement ( since 1980 ) and the Open source movement ( since the 1990s ).
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The former of these two cases was concerned with a claim on the part of the inhabitants of Aberdeen to roam at will over a piece of land bordering upon the River Don, and for such purpose to use every part of the land to the practical exclusion of any right of user on the part of the owner.
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:" The word free in FOSS refers not to fiscal cost, but to the autonomy rights that FOSS grants its users . ( A better word for zero-cost software, which lacks such rights, is " freeware . " ) The phrase open source emphasizes the right of users to study, change, and improve the source code that is, the detailed design of FOSS applications.
