"For free" as a way of saying "for gratis" has long been circulating in speech and in the favored press for much more than 50 % a century. I 1st took conscious note of it in 1970, when Joni Mitchell bundled a tune titled "For Free" on her album of that yr, Women of the CanyonIt's free in the barren, sandy tracts, and good swamps, so prevalent while