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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 “binary blobs” (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 “Linux” refers to the
entire GNU/Linux combination get tied in knots by these facts, and make
paradoxical statements such as “Android contains Linux, but it
-isn't Linux.”(<a href="#linuxnote">*</a>) Absent this confusion,
+isn't Linux.”(<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 “install Linux
[sic] on your Android devices.” 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>
- www/philosophy android-and-users-freedom.html,
Therese Godefroy <=