May 15, 2003

software hoarding

n.

Pejorative term employed by members and adherents of the GNU project to describe the act of holding software proprietary, keeping it under trade secret or license terms which prohibit free redistribution and modification. Used primarily in Free Software Foundation propaganda. For a summary of related issues, see GNU and free software.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:29 AM

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