X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/820f92e199756d240b94ae9e646440f307df8a4d..f433306af510e86a614e9f9f082b6d2d5f56a968:/etc/GNU diff --git a/etc/GNU b/etc/GNU index 4ee6ef0315..45f36465da 100644 --- a/etc/GNU +++ b/etc/GNU @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Copyright (C) 1985, 1993, 2003, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1985, 1993, 2001-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document, in any medium, provided that the copyright notice and @@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ The GNU Manifesto Footnotes added in 1993 help clarify these points. For up-to-date information about the available GNU software, - please see the latest issue of the GNU's Bulletin. The list is - much too long to include here. + please see www.gnu.org. For software tasks to work on, see + http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tasklist. For other ways + to contribute, see http://www.gnu.org/help. What's GNU? Gnu's Not Unix! ============================ @@ -531,13 +532,13 @@ biased; more subtle is the fact that it lumps together various disparate laws which raise very different issues. Nowadays I urge people to reject the term "intellectual property" entirely, lest it lead others to suppose that those laws form one coherent issue. The way to be -clear is to to discuss patents, copyrights, and trademarks separately. +clear is to discuss patents, copyrights, and trademarks separately. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml for more explanation of how this term spreads confusion and bias. - (7) In 1985 I had not yet recognized the importance of distinguishing -between "free software" and "freeware". The term "freeware" means -software you are free to redistribute, but usually you are not free to study -and change the source code, so most of it is not free software. -See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html for more + (7) Subsequently we have learned to distinguish between "free +software" and "freeware". The term "freeware" means software you are +free to redistribute, but usually you are not free to study and change +the source code, so most of it is not free software. See +http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html for more explanation.