www/philosophy selling-exceptions.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       19/02/20 07:39:21

Modified files:
        philosophy     : selling-exceptions.html 

Log message:
        Clarify the definition in the first paragraph.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.30&r2=1.31

Patches:
Index: selling-exceptions.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html,v
retrieving revision 1.30
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -b -r1.30 -r1.31
--- selling-exceptions.html     15 Dec 2018 14:02:38 -0000      1.30
+++ selling-exceptions.html     20 Feb 2019 12:37:13 -0000      1.31
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@
 <p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></p>
 
 <p>Selling exceptions means that the copyright holder of the code
-releases it to the public under a free software license, then lets
-customers pay for permission to use the same code under different
-terms, for instance allowing its inclusion in proprietary
-applications.</p>
+releases it to the general public under a valid free software license,
+then separately offers users the option of paying for permission to
+use the same code under different terms, for instance terms allowing
+its inclusion in proprietary applications.</p>
 
 <p>We must distinguish the practice of selling exceptions from something
 crucially different: purely proprietary extensions or versions of
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/12/15 14:02:38 $
+$Date: 2019/02/20 12:37:13 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>