www/philosophy free-sw.html

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 18/04/23 13:57:34

Modified files:
        philosophy     : free-sw.html 

Log message:
        Add a footnote explaining why there are 4 freedoms (RT #1289903).

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/free-sw.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.158&r2=1.159

Patches:
Index: free-sw.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/free-sw.html,v
retrieving revision 1.158
retrieving revision 1.159
diff -u -b -r1.158 -r1.159
--- free-sw.html        1 Apr 2018 07:40:22 -0000       1.158
+++ free-sw.html        23 Apr 2018 17:57:32 -0000      1.159
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 
 <p>
 A program is free software if the program's users have the
-four essential freedoms:
+four essential freedoms: <a href="#f1">[1]</a>
 </p>
 
 <ul>
@@ -554,6 +554,14 @@
 the <a 
href="http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/www/philosophy/free-sw.html?root=www&amp;view=log";>cvsweb
 interface</a>.</p>
 
+<h3 style="font-size:1em">Footnote</h3>
+<ol>
+<li id="f1">The reason they are numbered 0, 1, 2 and 3 is historical. Around
+1990 there were three freedoms, numbered 1, 2 and 3. Then we realized that
+the freedom to run the program needed to be mentioned explicitly.
+It was clearly more basic than the other three, so it properly should
+precede them. Rather than renumber the others, we made it freedom&nbsp;0.</li>
+</ol>
 
 </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
 <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
@@ -613,7 +621,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/04/01 07:40:22 $
+$Date: 2018/04/23 17:57:32 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>