Meaning

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

    freie

    свободныйsvobodnyj

  2. (historical, not comparable)Not enslaved (of a black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans).

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:libre.

  3. (not comparable, obsolete, rare)Especially of the will: free, independent, unconstrained.

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Libre and gratis are two different things.

  2. This software is libre.

  3. Tom is into lucha libre.

  4. A Cuba Libre is a cocktail with a rum base.

    ruКуба либре - коктейль на основе рома. — fjay69

  5. I'm at the Libre Software Meeting to present the Tatoeba project.

    ruЯ нахожусь на встрече "Libre Software Meeting", чтобы представить проект Tatoeba. — Biga

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
(software) with very few limitations on distribution or improvement:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
(software) with very few limitations on distribution or improvement:

Origin

The obsolete “unconstrained” sense is borrowed from French libre (“at liberty”; “free” as

The obsolete “unconstrained” sense is borrowed from French libre (“at liberty”; “free” as in “clear”, “vacant”, “without obligation”), from Latin līber (“free, unrestricted”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“people”), whence obsolete English lede (“person(s)”), English leud, and German Leute.

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