www/philosophy free-system-distribution-guideli...

[Brett Smith]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Brett Smith <brett>     08/05/19 13:59:06

Modified files:
        philosophy     : free-system-distribution-guidelines.html 

Log message:
        Updates requested by RMS, mostly because of feedback from Rahul.
        
        * Talk about data with an aesthetic, rather than functional, purpose.
        
        * Totally redo the shareware section; RMS decided the term didn't
          mean what he wanted here.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.1&r2=1.2

Patches:
Index: free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -b -r1.1 -r1.2
--- free-system-distribution-guidelines.html    14 May 2008 17:22:27 -0000      
1.1
+++ free-system-distribution-guidelines.html    19 May 2008 13:59:00 -0000      
1.2
@@ -16,13 +16,14 @@
 
 <div class="section">
 <h3><a id="introduction" name="introduction">Introduction</a></h3>
-<p>The purpose of these guidelines is to help people determine whether or
-not all the information for practical use in a system distribution
+<p>The purpose of these guidelines is to help people determine whether
+or not all the information for practical use in a system distribution
 (such as a GNU/Linux distribution) is free, and to help people create
-such distributions.  &quot;Information for practical use&quot; includes
-software, documentation, fonts, and other data that has direct
-functional applications.  It does not include artistic works that have
-no immediate practical purpose, or statements of opinion or judgment.</p>
+such distributions.  &quot;Information for practical use&quot;
+includes software, documentation, fonts, and other data that has
+direct functional applications.  It does not include artistic works
+that have an aesthetic (rather than functional) purpose, or statements
+of opinion or judgment.</p>
 <p>These guidelines are not complete.  We have mentioned the issues we
 are aware of now, but we're sure there are more.  We will add them
 when we come across them.</p>
@@ -75,17 +76,15 @@
 <a class="reference" href="http://directory.fsf.org/project/linux/";>Free 
Software Directory</a>.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="section">
-<h3><a id="shareware" name="shareware">Shareware</a></h3>
-<p><a class="reference" href="/philosophy/categories.html#shareware">Shareware 
programs are not free software</a>, and should not be
-included in a free system distribution.</p>
-<p>However, it is worth noting that it may be acceptable for a free
-system distribution to distribute files under a shareware license, if
-the information in them doesn't do anything functional.  For example,
-there are some game engines that have been released under the GNU GPL,
-and have accompanying game information—a world map, game graphics, and
-so on—released as shareware.  It is acceptable for a free system
-distribution to include such materials, because they are artistic
-rather than functional.</p>
+<h3><a id="non-fuctional-data" name="non-functional-data">Non-functional 
Data</a></h3>
+<p>Data that has an aesthetic purpose, rather than a functional one,
+may be included in a free system distribution as long as its license
+gives you permission to copy and redistribute, both for commercial and
+non-commercial purposes.  For example, there are some game engines
+that have been released under the GNU GPL, and have accompanying game
+information—a world map, game graphics, and so on—released under such
+a verbatim distribution license.  This kind of data can be part of a
+free system distribution.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="section">
 <h3><a id="documentation" name="documentation">Documentation</a></h3>
@@ -133,7 +132,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2008/05/14 17:22:27 $
+$Date: 2008/05/19 13:59:00 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>