www/philosophy categories.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       10/06/26 21:19:45

Modified files:
        philosophy     : categories.html 

Log message:
        Add LaxPermissiveLicensedSoftware.
        Minor change in PrivateSoftware.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/categories.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.62&r2=1.63

Patches:
Index: categories.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/categories.html,v
retrieving revision 1.62
retrieving revision 1.63
diff -u -b -r1.62 -r1.63
--- categories.html     23 Jun 2010 13:50:39 -0000      1.62
+++ categories.html     26 Jun 2010 21:19:41 -0000      1.63
@@ -190,6 +190,13 @@
        because others had contributed their code under the same
        non-copyleft license.</p>
 
+<h3 id="LaxPermissiveLicensedSoftware">Lax permissive licensed software</h3>
+
+       <p>Lax permissive licenses include the X11 license and the
+       <a href="bsd.html">two BSD licenses</a>.  These licenses permit
+       almost any use of the code, including distributing proprietary
+       binaries with or without changing the source code.</p>
+
 <h3 id="GPL-CoveredSoftware">GPL-covered software</h3>
 
        <p>The <a href="/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GPL (General Public
@@ -331,7 +338,7 @@
        it, and does not release it to the public either as source code or
        as binaries.</p>
        <p>A private program is free software in a trivial sense if its
-       unique user has full rights to it.</p>
+       sole user has full rights to it.</p>
        <p>In general we do not believe it is wrong to develop a program
        and not release it. There are occasions when a program is so useful
        that withholding it from release is treating humanity badly.
@@ -410,7 +417,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2010/06/23 13:50:39 $
+$Date: 2010/06/26 21:19:41 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>