Freedom Distance

   The main article about this is found in a section of [1]free software
   article.

   Tl;dr: Freedom distance is the average minimum distance to someone who can
   practically exercise ALL legally defined freedoms (such as the four
   essential freedoms of [2]free software) or similarly satisfy some legal
   conditions; it is a metric that can be applied to measuring PRACTICAL
   effects of legal definitions.

Links:
1. free_software.md
2. free_software.md