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Some users got their copies of GNU Emacs from me through the net, and did not pay. Some users got their copies from me on a tape, and did pay. And some got their copies from someone else, not from me, because everyone who had a copy was free to redistribute it. And did they pay that somebody else? Well, I don't know; that was between them. They didn't have to tell me. So GNU Emacs was gratis for some users and paid for for other users, but it was free software for all of them, because all of them had certain essential freedoms, which are the definition of free software.