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From: Richard M. Stallman
Subject: www/philosophy free-sw.html
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 16:05:49 +0000

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       06/07/23 16:05:49

Modified files:
        philosophy     : free-sw.html 

Log message:
        Clarify whose purpose is significant in the freedom to run the program
        for any purpose.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/free-sw.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.45&r2=1.46

Patches:
Index: free-sw.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/free-sw.html,v
retrieving revision 1.45
retrieving revision 1.46
diff -u -b -r1.45 -r1.46
--- free-sw.html        5 Jun 2006 02:17:57 -0000       1.45
+++ free-sw.html        23 Jul 2006 16:05:47 -0000      1.46
@@ -68,10 +68,16 @@
 exist.  If you do publish your changes, you should not be required to
 notify anyone in particular, or in any particular way.</p>
 <p>
-The freedom to use a program means the freedom for any kind of person
-or organization to use it on any kind of computer system, for any kind
-of overall job, and without being required to communicate subsequently
-with the developer or any other specific entity.</p>
+The freedom to run the program means the freedom for any kind of
+person or organization to use it on any kind of computer system, for
+any kind of overall job and purpose, without being required to
+communicate about it with the developer or any other specific entity.
+In this freedom, it is the <em>user's</em> purpose that matters, not
+the <em>developer's</em> purpose; you as a user are free to run a
+program for your purposes, and if you distribute it to someone else,
+she is then free to run it for her purposes, but you are not entitled
+to impose your purposes on her.
+</p>
 <p>
 The freedom to redistribute copies must include binary or executable
 forms of the program, as well as source code, for both modified and
@@ -319,7 +325,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2006/06/05 02:17:57 $ $Author: johnsu01 $
+$Date: 2006/07/23 16:05:47 $ $Author: rms $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>




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