X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/f48201dc1767f13fc55191e5b721cda1819dcd64..e4481965c0d7dd85199c8fe4d7e5b2441239be1b:/etc/GNU diff --git a/etc/GNU b/etc/GNU index 283e206b56..6d54265d84 100644 --- a/etc/GNU +++ b/etc/GNU @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -Copyright (C) 1985, 1993, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1985, 1993, 2002, 2003, 2004, + 2005 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 +23,9 @@ 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! ============================ @@ -518,7 +520,7 @@ friends or over the net. But it does suggest the wrong idea. (3) Several such companies now exist. - (4) The Free Software Foundation raisesd most of its funds for 10 + (4) The Free Software Foundation raised most of its funds for 10 years from a distribution service, although it is a charity rather than a company. @@ -531,13 +533,13 @@ 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 recognize it is important to distinguish -clearly between "free software" and "freeware". The term "freeware" -means you are free to redistribute the software--but not necessarily -free to study and change the source code. So it is not the same as -free software. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html -for more explanation. + (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.