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But then you get the great quip that 'freedom isn't free'...

"Freiheit ist nicht umsonst" just doesn't have the same ring :-)

Well, we do have the word "liberty" in English, too. Maybe it's more that one meaning for a word and one word for a meaning just aren't enough for us.

> Well, we do have the word "liberty" in English, too

But no commonly-used adjective form of that noun.

True, "liberated software" doesn't have quite the right tone these days.

I've seen the acronym FLOSS used: Free, Libre and Open Source Software

In English we do have the word "liberty" for freedom.