www/licenses copyleft.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       16/11/01 14:00:25

Modified files:
        licenses       : copyleft.html 

Log message:
        Local clarifications.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/licenses/copyleft.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.2&r2=1.3

Patches:
Index: copyleft.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/licenses/copyleft.html,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -b -r1.2 -r1.3
--- copyleft.html       3 Oct 2015 17:25:12 -0000       1.2
+++ copyleft.html       1 Nov 2016 14:00:24 -0000       1.3
@@ -9,9 +9,10 @@
 <h2>What is Copyleft?</h2>
 
 <p>
-Copyleft is a general method for making a program (or
-other work) free, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the
-program to be free as well.</p>
+Copyleft is a general method for making a program (or other work) free
+(<a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html"> in the sense of freedom, not
+"zero price"</a>), and requiring all modified and extended versions of
+the program to be free as well.</p>
 
 <p>
 The simplest way to make a program free software is to put it in the
@@ -28,8 +29,8 @@
 <p>
 In the <a href="/gnu/thegnuproject.html">GNU project</a>, our aim is
 to give <em>all</em> users the freedom to redistribute and change GNU
-software.  If middlemen could strip off the freedom, we might have
-many users, but those users would not have freedom.  So instead of
+software.  If middlemen could strip off the freedom, our code might &ldquo;have
+many users,&rdquo; but it would not give them freedom.  So instead of
 putting GNU software in the public domain, we &ldquo;copyleft&rdquo;
 it.  Copyleft says that anyone who redistributes the software, with or
 without changes, must pass along the freedom to further copy and
@@ -75,7 +76,7 @@
 doesn't mean abandoning the copyright; in fact, doing so would make
 copyleft impossible.  The &ldquo;left&rdquo; in
 &ldquo;copyleft&rdquo; is not a reference to the verb &ldquo;to
-leave&rdquo;&mdash;only to the direction which is the inverse of
+leave&rdquo;&mdash;only to the direction which is the mirror image of
 &ldquo;right&rdquo;.</p>
 
 <p>
@@ -226,7 +227,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/10/03 17:25:12 $
+$Date: 2016/11/01 14:00:24 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>