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Gratis is a term in Latin and various Romance and Germanic languages (e.g. English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, German, Norwegian, Dutch) meaning free, in the sense that one does not have to pay for some good or service (free of charge).
In hacker jargon, another common term for gratis is free as in beer, to contrast with libreLibre is a word in various Romance languages, e. Spanish and French (but not Latin itself, where the spelling is liber that denotes the state of being free, as in "having freedom". GNU programmers often talk about free speech (libre) and free beer ( grati or free as in speechFreedom of speech is the right to freely say what you please, as well as the related right to hear what others have stated. It is self-explanatory. Recently, it has been commonly understood as encompassing full freedom of expression including the freedom. (See also free softwareThis article refers to free software as defined by the Free Software Foundation. For software available free of charge, see Freeware. The term free software refers to software which, once obtained, can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed. and Open Source)
