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

[Yavor Doganov]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Yavor Doganov <yavor>   09/02/28 20:34:18

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

Log message:
        Validation fix.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.14&r2=1.15

Patches:
Index: free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html,v
retrieving revision 1.14
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -b -r1.14 -r1.15
--- free-system-distribution-guidelines.html    28 Feb 2009 00:01:34 -0000      
1.14
+++ free-system-distribution-guidelines.html    28 Feb 2009 20:34:11 -0000      
1.15
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 <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;
+such distributions.  &ldquo;Information for practical use&rdquo;
 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
@@ -34,16 +34,18 @@
 <div class="section">
 <h3 id="license-rules">License Rules</h3>
 <p>All information for practical use in a free distribution must be
-available in source form.  ("Source" means the form of the information that is 
preferred for making changes to it.)</p>
+available in source form.  (&ldquo;Source&rdquo; means the form of the
+information that is preferred for making changes to it.)</p>
 
-<p>The information, and the source, must
-be provided under an appropriate free license.  We list the ones we have
-evaluated on <a class="reference" href="/licenses/license-list.html">our 
license list</a>, with separate sections for licenses
-that are suitable for software, documentation, fonts, and other useful
-works.  If such a work is released under multiple licenses, at least
-one of which is free, it can be included in the system; the system
-developers just need to follow the terms of the available free
-license(s) when they distribute and/or modify it.</p>
+<p>The information, and the source, must be provided under an
+appropriate free license.  We list the ones we have evaluated
+on <a class="reference" href="/licenses/license-list.html">our license
+list</a>, with separate sections for licenses that are suitable for
+software, documentation, fonts, and other useful works.  If such a
+work is released under multiple licenses, at least one of which is
+free, it can be included in the system; the system developers just
+need to follow the terms of the available free license(s) when they
+distribute and/or modify it.</p>
 <p>A free system distribution must not steer users towards obtaining any
 nonfree information for practical use, or encourage them to do so.
 There should be no repositories or ports for nonfree software.
@@ -69,10 +71,10 @@
 <h3 id="nonfree-firmware">Nonfree Firmware</h3>
 <p>Some applications and drivers require firmware to function, and
 sometimes that firmware is distributed only in object code form, under
-a nonfree license.  We call these firmware programs &quot;blobs.&quot;  On most
-GNU/Linux systems, you'll typically find these accompanying some
-drivers in the kernel Linux.  Such firmware should be removed from a
-free system distribution.</p>
+a nonfree license.  We call these firmware programs
+&ldquo;blobs.&rdquo; On most GNU/Linux systems, you'll typically find
+these accompanying some drivers in the kernel Linux.  Such firmware
+should be removed from a free system distribution.</p>
 <p>Blobs can take many forms.  Sometimes, they will be provided in
 separate files.  Other times, they may be incorporated into the source
 of the driver itself&mdash;for example, it could be encoded as a large
@@ -81,12 +83,16 @@
 <p>(To be clear, not every array of numbers in a driver is firmware.
 It's important to understand the purpose of the data before deciding
 whether or not it's appropriate for a free system.)</p>
-<p>Brian Brazil, Jeff Moe, and Alexandre Oliva have developed a series of
-<a class="reference" 
href="http://www.fsfla.org/svn/fsfla/software/linux-libre/scripts/";>scripts to 
remove nonfree firmware</a> from a stock version of Linux.
-You may find them helpful if you would like to develop your own free
-GNU/Linux distribution.  The complete source for a blob-free version
-of Linux is also available; you can learn more about this from the
-<a class="reference" href="http://directory.fsf.org/project/linux/";>Free 
Software Directory</a>.</p>
+<p>Brian Brazil, Jeff Moe, and Alexandre Oliva have developed a series
+of
+<a class="reference"
+href="http://www.fsfla.org/svn/fsfla/software/linux-libre/scripts/";>scripts
+to remove nonfree firmware</a> from a stock version of Linux.  You may
+find them helpful if you would like to develop your own free GNU/Linux
+distribution.  The complete source for a blob-free version of Linux is
+also available; you can learn more about this from the
+<a class="reference" href="http://directory.fsf.org/project/linux/";>
+Free Software Directory</a>.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="section">
 <h3 id="non-fuctional-data">Non-functional Data</h3>
@@ -155,21 +161,22 @@
 
 <p>We list the free system distributions we know about
 on <a class="reference" href="/links/links.html">our links page</a>.
-If you know about a free distro that
-isn't listed there, please have the developers write to us at
-&lt;<a class="reference" href="mailto:gnu&#64;gnu.org";>gnu&#64;gnu.org</a>&gt;.
+If you know about a free distro that isn't listed there, please have
+the developers write to us at &lt;<a class="reference"
+href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a>&gt;.</p>
 
 <p>However, we will not list a distro whose name makes confusion with
 non-free distros likely.  Thus, if Foobar Light is a free distro and
 Foobar is a non-free distro, we will not list Foobar Light.  This is
 because we expect that the distinction between the two would be lost
-in the process of communicating this message.
+in the process of communicating this message.</p>
 
-<p>If you have questions or comments about these
-guidelines themselves, feel free to send those to
-&lt;<a class="reference" 
href="mailto:licensing&#64;gnu.org";>licensing&#64;gnu.org</a>&gt;.  We hope 
this helps everyone better understand
-the issues that are important for free system distributions, and we
-look forward to promoting more of them in the future.</p>
+<p>If you have questions or comments about these guidelines
+themselves, feel free to send those to &lt;<a class="reference"
+href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a>&gt;.  We hope
+this helps everyone better understand the issues that are important
+for free system distributions, and we look forward to promoting more
+of them in the future.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 
@@ -194,7 +201,7 @@
 </p>
 
 <p>
-Copyright &copy; 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+Copyright &copy; 2008, 2009 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
@@ -205,7 +212,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2009/02/28 00:01:34 $
+$Date: 2009/02/28 20:34:11 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>
@@ -229,12 +236,12 @@
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 <!-- English -->
 <li><a 
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+<!-- Spanish -->
+<li><a 
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-<li><a 
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+<li><a 
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