www/philosophy no-ip-ethos.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       11/10/16 09:41:42

Modified files:
        philosophy     : no-ip-ethos.html 

Log message:
        Minor changes.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/no-ip-ethos.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.17&r2=1.18

Patches:
Index: no-ip-ethos.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/no-ip-ethos.html,v
retrieving revision 1.17
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -b -r1.17 -r1.18
--- no-ip-ethos.html    16 Oct 2011 09:38:28 -0000      1.17
+++ no-ip-ethos.html    16 Oct 2011 09:41:37 -0000      1.18
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@
   want to do is easier.</p>
 
   <p>Disney wishes to stamp out semi-underground organizations that
-  sell exact copies. With free software, regardless of the type of
-  license, that kind of copying is legal. What we want to prevent,
+  sell exact copies. With free software, regardless of precisely which
+  free license is used, that kind of copying is legal. What we want to prevent,
   when the free software license is the
   GNU <a href="/copyleft/gpl.html">GPL</a>, is the release of
   proprietary software products based on our code. That kind of abuse
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
   &ldquo;intellectual property&rdquo; and &ldquo;patents&rdquo; as if they were
   two names for the same thing. Having studied those two laws,
   Meeker knows they are vastly different; all they have in common
-  is a rough sketch of their form.</p>
+  is an abstract sketch of their form.</p>
 
   <p>Other &ldquo;intellectual property&rdquo; laws don't even
   share that much with them. The implication that you can treat
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 
   <p>What is really in the U.S. Constitution? It doesn't mention
   &ldquo;intellectual property&rdquo;, and it says nothing at all
-  about most of the laws that term covers. Only two of them &mdash;
+  about most of the laws that term is applied to. Only two of them &mdash;
   copyright law and patent law &mdash; are treated there.</p>
 
   <p>What does the Constitution say about them? What is its ethos?
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
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+$Date: 2011/10/16 09:41:37 $
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