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| From: | Richard M. Stallman |
| Subject: | www/philosophy pragmatic.html |
| Date: | Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:32:07 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Richard M. Stallman <rms> 09/10/17 10:32:07
Modified files:
philosophy : pragmatic.html
Log message:
Punctuation edits.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/pragmatic.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.30&r2=1.31
Patches:
Index: pragmatic.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/pragmatic.html,v
retrieving revision 1.30
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -b -r1.30 -r1.31
--- pragmatic.html 21 Apr 2009 14:43:57 -0000 1.30
+++ pragmatic.html 17 Oct 2009 10:31:44 -0000 1.31
@@ -35,18 +35,18 @@
<p>
Not everyone who uses the GNU GPL has this goal. Many years ago, a
friend of mine was asked to rerelease a copylefted program under
-non-copyleft terms, and he responded more or less like this:</p>
-
-<blockquote><p>
-Sometimes I work on free software, and sometimes I work on proprietary
+noncopyleft terms, and he responded more or less like this:</p>
+noncopyleft terms, and he responded more or less like this:
+“Sometimes I work on free software, and sometimes I work on proprietary
software—but when I work on proprietary software, I expect to
-get <em>paid</em>.
+get<em>paid</em>.”</p>
+
</p></blockquote>
<p>
He was willing to share his work with a community that shares
software, but saw no reason to give a handout to a business making
-products that would be off limits to our community. His goal was
+products that would be off-limits to our community. His goal was
different from mine, but he decided that the GNU GPL was useful for
his goal too.</p>
<p>
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
Many GNU libraries are covered by the GNU Lesser General Public
License, but not all. One GNU library which is covered by the
ordinary GNU GPL is Readline, which implements command-line editing.
-I once found out about a non-free program which was designed
+I once found out about a nonfree program which was designed
to use Readline, and told the developer this was not allowed. He
could have taken command-line editing out of the program, but what he
actually did was rerelease it under the GPL. Now it is free software.</p>
@@ -128,26 +128,26 @@
indirectly, through free software organizations that have adopted a
policy of catering to proprietary software. The X Consortium (and its
successor, the Open Group) offers an example: funded by companies that
-made proprietary software, they have strived for a decade to persuade
-programmers not to use copyleft. Now that the Open Group has
-<a href="/philosophy/x.html">made X11R6.4 non-free software</a>, those
-of us who resisted that pressure are glad that we did.</p>
-<p>
-[In September 1998, several months after X11R6.4 was released with
-non-free distribution terms, the Open Group reversed its decision and
-rereleased it under the same non-copyleft free software license that
+made proprietary software, they strived for a decade to persuade
+programmers not to use copyleft. When the Open Group tried to
+<a href="/philosophy/x.html">make X11R6.4 nonfree software</a>, those
+of us who had resisted that pressure were glad that we did.</p>
+<p>
+In September 1998, several months after X11R6.4 was released with
+nonfree distribution terms, the Open Group reversed its decision and
+rereleased it under the same noncopyleft free software license that
was used for X11R6.3. Thank you, Open Group—but this subsequent
reversal does not invalidate the conclusions we draw from the fact
-that adding the restrictions was <em>possible</em>.]</p>
+that adding the restrictions was <em>possible</em>.</p>
<p>
Pragmatically speaking, thinking about greater long-term goals will
strengthen your will to resist this pressure. If you focus your mind
on the freedom and community that you can build by staying firm, you
will find the strength to do it. “Stand for something, or you
-will fall for nothing.”</p>
+will fall for anything.”</p>
<p>
And if cynics ridicule freedom, ridicule community…if
-“hard nosed realists” say that profit is the only
+“hard-nosed realists” say that profit is the only
ideal…just ignore them, and use copyleft all the same.</p>
<hr />
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
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-$Date: 2009/04/21 14:43:57 $
+$Date: 2009/10/17 10:31:44 $
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