(historical) A free (not enslaved) black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans.
Used in a Sentence
libre
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for libre.
Editorial note
Something like the Chromebooks, with a libre boot system and a libre Linux distribution.
Examples18
Definitions3
Parts of speech2
Quick take
(historical) A free (not enslaved) black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of libre gathered in one view.
(historical) Not enslaved (of a black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans).
(software) With very few limitations on distribution or the right to access the source code to create improved versions, but not necessarily free of charge.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for libre.
noun
(historical) A free (not enslaved) black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans.
adjective
(historical) Not enslaved (of a black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans).
adjective
(software) With very few limitations on distribution or the right to access the source code to create improved versions, but not necessarily free of charge.
Example sentences
Something like the Chromebooks, with a libre boot system and a libre Linux distribution.
Notice that if you sell your logiciel libre under the GPL license, you have to give the sources of your logiciel libre to your paying _customer_, but not to anybody else.
The money quote from the linked coreboot blog post is: Laptops with libre operating systems have existed for decades.
Since it is a GNU-based distribution, users can add hundreds of thousands of free/libre and open source applications easily.
And to be fair, if Libre Office was good enough you wouldn't have mentioned Google Docs.
It seems like the desktop environment is Gnome and they pre-install Libre Office, gimp and inkscape.
Even libre firmware can't guarantee my system won't be compromised and updated with malicious firmware.
And the hardware they do provide is not significantly more secure/libre than any run-of-the-mill laptop.
Word import and export is not perfect, but it's relatively good in Libre Office.
GluGlug can make this claim, and it ships laptops with fully libre firmware.
Free software (logiciel libre) is not software given for free, for USD0.00.
I'm definitely not buying into the principle that everything needs to be distributed, libre and democratic.
Quote examples
Google ships partially free firmware, although insufficiently libre to be able to provide the “respect your privacy” guarantee.
So you have these two fighting against each other." (Brand 1984, via Wikipedia) // It's saying that information is valuable and so in a way it should be expensive but as we now have ways of distributing that information for little cost we can make the information free-libre and virtually free-gratis.
This is also where the nerd-power term "Libre" comes into play which inspired such misnamed catastrophies as "LibreOffice." Free ~ Libre = Freedom of User Modification, free as in "I'm free, I'm not a slave" — nothing to do with monetary "free" of not paying for code you can see, though that is seemingly a prerequisite.
Proper noun examples
Mercado Libre/Pago is huge here in Latin America, and I wouldn't have read this post otherwise.
Turd cookie = Floss (Free, Libre, Open Source Software) project.
Mercado Pago is 11 years old and part of the 16 year old Mercado Libre, which is like eBay and the number 1 Latin American ecommerce site.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use libre in a sentence?
Something like the Chromebooks, with a libre boot system and a libre Linux distribution.
What does libre mean?
(historical) A free (not enslaved) black person in a French- or Spanish-colonized area, especially New Orleans.
What part of speech is libre?
libre is commonly used as noun, adjective.