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www/server/staging/readability free-sw.html
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From: |
Therese Godefroy |
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Subject: |
www/server/staging/readability free-sw.html |
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Date: |
Sun, 3 Jun 2018 06:02:51 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 18/06/03 06:02:51
Modified files:
server/staging/readability: free-sw.html
Log message:
Use current version of free-sw.hml and layout.css.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/staging/readability/free-sw.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.14&r2=1.15
Patches:
Index: free-sw.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/server/staging/readability/free-sw.html,v
retrieving revision 1.14
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -b -r1.14 -r1.15
--- free-sw.html 1 Jun 2018 08:56:28 -0000 1.14
+++ free-sw.html 3 Jun 2018 10:02:51 -0000 1.15
@@ -1,27 +1,11 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
- "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
-
-<head>
-<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
-<link rev="made" href="mailto:address@hidden"; />
-<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/graphics/gnu-head-mini.png" />
-<meta name="ICBM" content="42.355469,-71.058627" />
-<meta name="DC.title" content="gnu.org" />
-<link rel="stylesheet" href="/combo.css" media="screen" />
-<link rel="stylesheet" href="/mini.css" media="handheld" />
-<link rel="stylesheet" href="/layout.css" media="screen" />
-<link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.min.css" media="print" />
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.85 -->
<title>What is free software?
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<style type="text/css" media="print,screen"><!--
-.abstract, .update {
- width: 90%; max-width: 55em;
- margin: auto;
-}
-.abstract * {
- font-size: 1.1em;
+.note { margin-left: 6%; margin-right: 6%; }
address@hidden (min-width: 48em) {
+ .note { margin-top: .8em; }
}
--></style>
<meta http-equiv="Keywords" content="GNU, FSF, Free Software Foundation,
Linux, Emacs, GCC, Unix, Free Software, Operating System, GNU Kernel, HURD, GNU
HURD, Hurd" />
@@ -34,8 +18,15 @@
<h3>The Free Software Definition</h3>
-<!--#include virtual="/licenses/fsf-licensing.html" -->
-<div class="abstract">
+<blockquote class="note" id="fsf-licensing"><p style="font-size: 80%">
+Have a question about free software licensing not answered here?
+See our other <a href="http://www.fsf.org/licensing";>licensing resources</a>,
+and if necessary contact the FSF Compliance Lab
+at <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a>.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<div class="big">
+<div class="comment">
<p>
The free software definition presents the criteria for whether a
particular software program qualifies as free software. From time to
@@ -46,6 +37,16 @@
</p>
<p>
+“Open source” is something different: it has a very
+different philosophy based on different values. Its practical
+definition is different too, but nearly all open source programs are
+in fact free. We explain the
+difference in <a href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">
+Why “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software</a>.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
“Free software” means software that respects users'
freedom and community. Roughly, it means that <b>the users have the
freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the
@@ -74,17 +75,17 @@
<p>
A program is free software if the program's users have the
-four essential freedoms:
+four essential freedoms: <a href="#f1">[1]</a>
</p>
-<ul>
+<ul class="important">
<li>The freedom to run the program as you wish,
for any purpose (freedom 0).</li>
<li>The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it
does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source
code is a precondition for this.
</li>
- <li>The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
+ <li>The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others
(freedom 2).
</li>
<li>The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions
@@ -137,9 +138,10 @@
<p>
The freedom to run the program as you wish means that you are not
-forbidden or stopped from doing so. It has nothing to do with what
-functionality the program has, or whether it is useful for what you
-want to do.</p>
+forbidden or stopped from making it run. This has nothing to do with what
+functionality the program has, whether it is technically capable of
+functioning in any given environment, or whether it is useful for any
+particular computing activity.</p>
<h4>The freedom to study the source code and make changes</h4>
@@ -177,7 +179,7 @@
someone else considers an improvement, that program is not free.
</p>
-<h4>The freedom to distribute if you wish: basic requirements</h4>
+<h4>The freedom to redistribute if you wish: basic requirements</h4>
<p>Freedom to distribute (freedoms 2 and 3) means you are free to
redistribute copies, either with or without modifications, either
@@ -437,6 +439,10 @@
<ul>
+<li><a
href="http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/www/philosophy/free-sw.html?root=www&r1=1.152&r2=1.153";>Version
+1.153</a>: Clarify that freedom to run the program means nothing stops
+you from making it run.</li>
+
<li><a
href="http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/www/philosophy/free-sw.html?root=www&r1=1.140&r2=1.141";>Version
1.141</a>: Clarify which code needs to be free.</li>
@@ -555,6 +561,14 @@
the <a
href="http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/www/philosophy/free-sw.html?root=www&view=log";>cvsweb
interface</a>.</p>
+<h3 style="font-size:1em">Footnote</h3>
+<ol>
+<li id="f1">The reason they are numbered 0, 1, 2 and 3 is historical. Around
+1990 there were three freedoms, numbered 1, 2 and 3. Then we realized that
+the freedom to run the program needed to be mentioned explicitly.
+It was clearly more basic than the other three, so it properly should
+precede them. Rather than renumber the others, we made it freedom 0.</li>
+</ol>
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
@@ -603,7 +617,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 1996, 2002, 2004-2007, 2009-2016, 2018
+<p>Copyright © 1996, 2002, 2004-2007, 2009-2018
Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
@@ -614,7 +628,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/06/01 08:56:28 $
+$Date: 2018/06/03 10:02:51 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>