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From: Therese Godefroy
Subject: www/philosophy android-and-users-freedom.html
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2018 08:15:04 -0400 (EDT)

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 18/06/03 08:15:03

Modified files:
        philosophy     : android-and-users-freedom.html 

Log message:
        - Android campaign: replace h4 with announcement class, move it to where
        it makes sense;
        - text: separate from metadata with hr, make 1st <p> narrower;
        - update a link, standardize footnote.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.55&r2=1.56

Patches:
Index: android-and-users-freedom.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html,v
retrieving revision 1.55
retrieving revision 1.56
diff -u -b -r1.55 -r1.56
--- android-and-users-freedom.html      18 Nov 2016 06:31:39 -0000      1.55
+++ android-and-users-freedom.html      3 Jun 2018 12:15:02 -0000       1.56
@@ -5,14 +5,14 @@
 <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/android-and-users-freedom.translist" -->
 <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
 <h2>Android and Users' Freedom</h2>
-<p>by Richard Stallman<br />First published in <a
+<p>by Richard Stallman<br />First published in <em><a
 
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/sep/19/android-free-software-stallman";>
-The Guardian</a></p>
+The Guardian</a></em></p>
 
-<h3 class="center">Support the <a href="http://FreeYourAndroid.org/";>
-Free Your Android</a> campaign.</h3>
+<hr class="thin" />
 
-<p>To what extent does Android respect the freedom of its users? For a
+<p class="comment">
+To what extent does Android respect the freedom of its users? For a
 computer user that values freedom, that is the most important question
 to ask about any software system.</p>
 
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 and some applications. Linux aside, the software of Android versions
 1 and 2 was mostly developed by Google; Google released it under the
 Apache 2.0 license, which is a lax free software license without
-<a href="/copyleft/copyleft.html">copyleft</a>.</p>
+<a href="/licenses/copyleft.html">copyleft</a>.</p>
 
 <p>The version of Linux included in Android is not entirely free
 software, since it contains nonfree &ldquo;binary blobs&rdquo; (just
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@
 code is insufficient to run the device. Some of the applications that
 generally come with Android are nonfree, too.</p>
 
+<div class="announcement comment">
+<p><em>Support the <a href="http://FreeYourAndroid.org/";>Free Your
+Android</a> campaign.</em></p>
+</div>
+
 <p>Android is very different from the <a
 href="/gnu/the-gnu-project.html">GNU/Linux operating
 system</a> because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about
@@ -50,7 +55,7 @@
 kernel. People who erroneously think &ldquo;Linux&rdquo; refers to the
 entire GNU/Linux combination get tied in knots by these facts, and make
 paradoxical statements such as &ldquo;Android contains Linux, but it
-isn't Linux.&rdquo;(<a href="#linuxnote">*</a>) Absent this confusion,
+isn't Linux.&rdquo;(<a href="#linuxnote">1</a>) Absent this confusion,
 the situation is simple: Android contains Linux, but not GNU; thus,
 Android and GNU/Linux are mostly different, because all they have in
 common is Linux.</p>
@@ -241,9 +246,10 @@
 less bad than Apple or Windows phones, they cannot be said to
 respect your freedom.</p>
 
-<hr />
-<ul>
-<li><a id="linuxnote"></a>The extreme example of this confusion appears in
+<hr class="thin" />
+
+<ol>
+<li id="linuxnote">The extreme example of this confusion appears in
 the site linuxonandroid.org, which offers help to &ldquo;install Linux
 [sic] on your Android devices.&rdquo; This is entirely false: what
 they are installing is a version of the GNU system, <em>excluding</em>
@@ -251,8 +257,7 @@
 supports only <a href="/distros/distros.html">nonfree GNU/Linux
 distros</a>, we do not recommend it.
 </li>
-</ul>
-
+</ol>
 
 <!-- If needed, change the copyright block at the bottom. In general,
      all pages on the GNU web server should have the section about
@@ -299,7 +304,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2016/11/18 06:31:39 $
+$Date: 2018/06/03 12:15:02 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>



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