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software hoarding
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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.