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Wget is free software, where "free" refers to liberty, not price. As the GNU people like to say, think of "free speech" rather than "free beer". The exact legal distribution terms follow below, but in short, you have the right (freedom) to run and change Wget and distribute it to other people, and even--if you want--charge money for any of these things. The sole restriction is that you have to grant your recipients the same rights.
This method of licensing software is also known as open-source, because it requires that the recipients always receive a program's source code along with the program.
More specifically:
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
In addition to this, this manual is free in the same sense:
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being "GNU General Public License" and "GNU Free Documentation License", with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
The full texts of the GNU General Public License and of the GNU Free Documentation License are available below.