What Gandhiji promoted was ?Gram Swaraj?Maybe that term is better. I am not an expert on this. I will ask the FSF India people what they think.
"Gram Swaraj" means autonomy of a village. Gandhi had a good explanation for that., but that explanation would be ir-relevant at this point. The english language suffers the problem of difference in meaning depending on context. There may be liguistic terms to describe this., I'm not literature student., so I dont know. But Indian languages have different words for different context.
"Free as in Freedom" can be stated as "swatantra" in Hindi/sanskrit. I dont know what is the equivalent term for "Free of cost". (My mother tongue is not Hindi/sanskrit)
Hence., the phrase "Software Swatantra" means "Freedom of Software". Might be more appropriate. IMHO
Cheers, Joe