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From: |
Yavor Doganov |
Subject: |
www/philosophy bsd.html bsd.html.gw-diff |
Date: |
Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:58:12 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Yavor Doganov <yavor> 07/04/01 12:58:12
Modified files:
philosophy : bsd.html
Removed files:
philosophy : bsd.html.gw-diff
Log message:
* Added link to the Hebrew translation.
* Restored original copiright years.
* Amended the entities -- —, &{l,d}quo; and ordinary ' for
casual apostrophies.
* Removed the useless bsd.html.gw-diff.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/bsd.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.18&r2=1.19
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/bsd.html.gw-diff?cvsroot=www&r1=1.2&r2=0
Patches:
Index: bsd.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/bsd.html,v
retrieving revision 1.18
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -b -r1.18 -r1.19
--- bsd.html 30 Mar 2007 17:05:53 -0000 1.18
+++ bsd.html 1 Apr 2007 12:58:08 -0000 1.19
@@ -55,13 +55,13 @@
</p>
<p>
If other developers who used BSD-like licenses had copied the BSD
- advertising clause verbatim—including the sentence that refers to
- the University of California—then they would not have made the
+ advertising clause verbatim—including the sentence that refers to
+ the University of California—then they would not have made the
problem any bigger.
</p>
<p>
But, as you might expect, other developers did not copy the clause
- verbatim. They changed it, replacing “University of
California”
+ verbatim. They changed it, replacing “University of
California”
with their own institution or their own names. The result is a
plethora of licenses, requiring a plethora of different sentences.
</p>
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
surprised if the list has grown by now.
</p>
<p>
- To address this problem, in my “spare time” I talk with
+ To address this problem, in my “spare time” I talk with
developers who have used BSD-style licenses, asking them if they would
please remove the advertising clause. Around 1996 I spoke with the
developers of FreeBSD about this, and they decided to remove the
@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@
change them.
</p>
<p>
- But if they followed Berkeley’s lead before, maybe Berkeley’s
- change in policy will convince some of them to change. It’s worth
+ But if they followed Berkeley's lead before, maybe Berkeley's
+ change in policy will convince some of them to change. It's worth
asking.
</p>
<p>
@@ -114,16 +114,16 @@
</p>
<p>
And if you want to release a program as non-copylefted free
- software, please don’t use the advertising clause. Instead of
- copying the BSD license from some released package—which might
- still have the old version of the license in it—please copy the
+ software, please don't use the advertising clause. Instead of
+ copying the BSD license from some released package—which might
+ still have the old version of the license in it—please copy the
license from X11.
</p>
<p>
You can also help spread awareness of the issue by not using the
- term “BSD-style”, and not saying “the BSD license”
+ term “BSD-style”, and not saying “the BSD license”
which implies there is only one. You see, when people refer to all
- non-copyleft free software licenses as “BSD-style licenses”,
+ non-copyleft free software licenses as “BSD-style licenses”,
some new free software developer who wants to use a non-copyleft free
software license might take for granted that the place to get it is from
BSD. He or she might copy the license with the advertising clause, not by
@@ -133,15 +133,15 @@
If you would like to cite one specific example of a non-copyleft
license, and you have no particular preference, please pick an
example which has no particular problem. For instance, if you talk
- about “X11-style licenses”, you will encourage people to copy
the
+ about “X11-style licenses”, you will encourage people to copy
the
license from X11, which avoids the advertising clause for certain,
rather than take a risk by randomly chosing one of the two BSD
licenses.
</p>
<p>
When you want to refer specifically to one of the BSD licenses,
- please always state which one: the “original BSD license” or
the
- “revised BSD license”.
+ please always state which one: the “original BSD license” or
the
+ “revised BSD license”.
</p>
<!-- If needed, change the copyright block at the bottom. In general, -->
@@ -156,12 +156,12 @@
<p>
Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>.
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
the FSF.
<br />
Please send broken links and other corrections (or suggestions) to
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>.
+<a href="mailto:address@hidden"><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
</p>
<p>
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@
</p>
<p>
-Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+Copyright © 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
</p>
<address>51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110, USA</address>
<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2007/03/30 17:05:53 $ $Author: clarkema $
+$Date: 2007/04/01 12:58:08 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
@@ -205,16 +205,28 @@
<!-- Please use W3C normative character entities -->
<ul class="translations-list">
-<li><a href="/philosophy/bsd.ca.html">Català</a> [ca]</li> <!--
Catalan -->
+<!-- Catalan -->
+<li><a href="/philosophy/bsd.ca.html">Català</a> [ca]</li>
+<!-- English -->
<li><a href="/philosophy/bsd.html">English</a> [en]</li>
-<li><a href="/philosophy/bsd.es.html">Español</a> [es]</li>
<!-- Spanish -->
-<li><a href="/philosophy/bsd.fr.html">Français</a> [fr]</li>
<!-- French -->
-<li><a href="/philosophy/bsd.id.html">Bahasa Indonesia</a> [id]</li>
<!-- Indonesian -->
-<li><a
href="/philosophy/bsd.ja.html">日本語</a> [ja]</li>
<!-- Japanese -->
-<li><a href="/philosophy/bsd.nl.html">Nederlands</a> [nl]</li> <!--
Dutch -->
-<li><a href="/philosophy/bsd.pl.html">Polski</a> [pl]</li> <!--
Polish -->
-<li><a href="/philosophy/bsd.pt.html">Português</a> [pt]</li>
<!-- Portuguese -->
-<li><a
href="/philosophy/bsd.ru.html">Русский</a> [ru]</li>
<!-- Russian -->
+<!-- Spanish -->
+<li><a href="/philosophy/bsd.es.html">Español</a> [es]</li>
+<!-- French -->
+<li><a href="/philosophy/bsd.fr.html">Français</a> [fr]</li>
+<!-- Hebrew -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/bsd.he.html">עברית</a> [he]</li>
+<!-- Indonesian -->
+<li><a href="/philosophy/bsd.id.html">Bahasa Indonesia</a> [id]</li>
+<!-- Japanese -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/bsd.ja.html">日本語</a> [ja]</li>
+<!-- Dutch -->
+<li><a href="/philosophy/bsd.nl.html">Nederlands</a> [nl]</li>
+<!-- Polish -->
+<li><a href="/philosophy/bsd.pl.html">Polski</a> [pl]</li>
+<!-- Portuguese -->
+<li><a href="/philosophy/bsd.pt.html">Português</a> [pt]</li>
+<!-- Russian -->
+<li><a
href="/philosophy/bsd.ru.html">Русский</a> [ru]</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
Index: bsd.html.gw-diff
===================================================================
RCS file: bsd.html.gw-diff
diff -N bsd.html.gw-diff
--- bsd.html.gw-diff 5 May 2005 19:37:13 -0000 1.2
+++ /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-*** /usr/www/html/philosophy/bsd.html Thu May 14 00:16:25 1998
---- /usr/www/html/philosophy/bsd.html.out Thu Aug 13 10:20:18 1998
-***************
-*** 111,117 ****
-
- Please send FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to
-
-! <A HREF="mailto:address@hidden"><EM>address@hidden</EM></A>.
- There are also <A HREF="/home.html#ContactInfo">other ways to
- contact</A> the FSF.
- <P>
---- 111,117 ----
-
- Please send FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to
-
-! <A HREF="mailto:address@hidden"><EM>address@hidden</EM></A>.
- There are also <A HREF="/home.html#ContactInfo">other ways to
- contact</A> the FSF.
- <P>
-***************
-*** 120,126 ****
-
- <A HREF="mailto:address@hidden"><EM>address@hidden</EM></A>,
- send other questions to
-! <A HREF="mailto:address@hidden"><EM>address@hidden</EM></A>.
- <P>
- Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110, USA
---- 120,126 ----
-
- <A HREF="mailto:address@hidden"><EM>address@hidden</EM></A>,
- send other questions to
-! <A HREF="mailto:address@hidden"><EM>address@hidden</EM></A>.
- <P>
- Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
- 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110, USA
-***************
-*** 130,136 ****
- <P>
- Updated:
- <!-- hhmts start -->
-! 13 May 1998 rms
- <!-- hhmts end -->
- <HR>
- </BODY>
---- 130,136 ----
- <P>
- Updated:
- <!-- hhmts start -->
-! 13 Aug 1998 grat-w
- <!-- hhmts end -->
- <HR>
- </BODY>
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