[gnome-software.wiki] Update Software licensing with some stub wording which people are very free to improve



commit 0f76a23fdb907c31c8cc781efb93ad2a6defe068
Author: Philip Withnall <philip tecnocode co uk>
Date:   Sun Jul 24 19:50:51 2022 +0000

    Update Software licensing with some stub wording which people are very free to improve

 Software-licensing.md | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/Software-licensing.md b/Software-licensing.md
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-Placeholder page to be linked to from gnome-software’s license tile.
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+Apps can be ‘free/open source software’ or ‘proprietary’. This affects the freedoms you as as user have. If 
an app is free/open source software (FOSS), you have the freedom to use it, copy it, study and change its 
source code. Proprietary software does not provide you with those freedoms. FOSS software is often available 
for no charge, but this is not always true.
+
+Because the source code is available for FOSS software, users can get involved in its development, 
contributing features or translations to their language and fixing bugs which affect them. They can audit the 
code and check that changes to the software are not malicious. They can learn from the source code and use it 
as the basis for their own FOSS applications.
+
+FOSS apps are [a public good](https://en.unesco.org/freeandopensourcesoftware).
+
+[More information about the 
differences](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software#FOSS_benefits_over_proprietary_software)
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