No, they are free. We could say “libre” too (French and Spanish for “free as in freedom”). The license they are distributed under respects the FSF's four freedoms <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html>.
Almost all “open source” software is free/libre, almost all free/libre software is “open source”.
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Date: 2014-09-24 07:23 pm (UTC)Almost all “open source” software is free/libre, almost all free/libre software is “open source”.