Libre

Quick meaning: Libre is an adjective meaning (software) With very few limitations on distribution or the right to access the source code to create improved versions, but not necessarily free of charge.

Meaning

(software) With very few limitations on distribution or the right to access the source code to create improved versions, but not necessarily free of charge.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) Especially of the will: free, independent, unconstrained.
2. (historical) Not enslaved (of a black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans).
3. (historical) A free (not enslaved) black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans.

Example Sentences

For quotations using this term, see Citations:libre.

He [God] Adame lent a libre will to follow what he liſt, / And with his holy ſpirit, and grace his choſen dois aſſiſt: [...]

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 those tools not owned by anyone—those that are libre.

Word Forms

• libres

Synonyms for libre

Depending on context, synonyms include free.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include freedom, free-form, unfettered, vacant, unrestricted, free.

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