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CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
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Modified files:
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freedom-or-copyright-old.html
funding-art-vs-funding-software.html gif.html
guardian-article.html ipjustice.html
kind-communication.html no-ip-ethos.html
vaccination.html whats-wrong-with-youtube.html
wsis.html
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* As needed: use byline class; move non-essential data to the end;
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Index: freedom-or-copyright.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/freedom-or-copyright.html,v
retrieving revision 1.66
retrieving revision 1.67
diff -u -b -r1.66 -r1.67
--- freedom-or-copyright.html 6 Oct 2020 08:25:53 -0000 1.66
+++ freedom-or-copyright.html 16 Sep 2021 16:30:28 -0000 1.67
@@ -1,17 +1,26 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.90 -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays laws copyright" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>Freedom or Copyright?
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/freedom-or-copyright.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" -->
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div class="article reduced-width">
<h2>Freedom—or Copyright?</h2>
<address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address>
+<div class="infobox">
<p><em>This essay addresses how the principles of software freedom
apply in some cases to other works of authorship and art. It's
included here since it involves the application of the ideas of free
software.</em></p>
+</div>
<hr class="thin" />
<p>
@@ -113,7 +122,7 @@
in the name of the authors (most of whom gain little). They would
have you believe that copyright is a natural right of authors, and
that we the public must suffer it no matter how painful it is. They
-call sharing “piracy”, equating helping your neighbor with
+call sharing “piracy,” equating helping your neighbor with
attacking a ship.</p>
<p>
@@ -130,17 +139,17 @@
like a success to me.) Radiohead made millions in 2007 by inviting
fans to copy an album and pay what they wished, while it was also
shared on peer-to-peer networks. In
-2008, <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/05/nine-inch-nails-made.html";>
+2008, <a href="https://boingboing.net/2008/03/05/nine-inch-nails-made.html";>
Nine Inch Nails released an album with permission to share copies</a>
and made $750,000 in a few days.</p>
<p>
The possibility of success without oppression is not limited to
bestsellers. Many artists of various levels of fame now make an
-adequate living through <a
href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091119/1634117011.shtml";>voluntary
+adequate living through <a
href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091119/1634117011.shtml";>voluntary
support</a>: donations and merchandise purchases of their fans.
Kevin Kelly estimates the artist need only find around
-<a href="http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php";>
+<a href="https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/";>
1,000 true fans</a>.
</p>
@@ -149,7 +158,7 @@
someone a small amount of money, without a credit card, it will be
easy to set up a much better system to support the arts. When you
view a work, there will be a button you can press saying, “Click
-here to send the artist one dollar”. Wouldn't you press it, at
+here to send the artist one dollar.” Wouldn't you press it, at
least once a week?</p>
<p>
@@ -171,7 +180,7 @@
<p>
The <a
-href="http://stallman.org/mecenat/global-patronage.html";>Global
+href="https://stallman.org/mecenat/global-patronage.html";>Global
Patronage</a> proposal combines aspects of those two systems,
incorporating mandatory payments with voluntary allocation among
artists.</p>
@@ -188,10 +197,11 @@
buy any products with DRM unless you personally have the means to
break the DRM. Never use a product designed to attack your freedom
unless you can nullify the attack.</p>
+</div>
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
-<div id="footer">
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
<div class="unprintable">
<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to <a
@@ -209,16 +219,33 @@
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org";>
<web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p>
- <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of
our web pages, see <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
README</a>. -->
Please see the <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README</a> for
-information on coordinating and submitting translations of this article.</p>
+information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p>
</div>
-<p>Copyright © 2008, 2010, 2011, 2019, 2020 Richard M. Stallman</p>
+<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
+ files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should
+ be under CC BY-ND 4.0. Please do NOT change or remove this
+ without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first.
+ Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the
+ document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the
+ document was modified, or published.
+
+ If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too.
+ Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying
+ years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable
+ year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
+ being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system).
+
+ There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+ Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+<p>Copyright © 2008, 2010 Richard Stallman</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
@@ -228,10 +255,10 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2020/10/06 08:25:53 $
+$Date: 2021/09/16 16:30:28 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
-</div>
+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
</body>
</html>
Index: freedom-or-copyright-old.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/freedom-or-copyright-old.html,v
retrieving revision 1.15
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -b -r1.15 -r1.16
--- freedom-or-copyright-old.html 12 Apr 2014 12:40:05 -0000 1.15
+++ freedom-or-copyright-old.html 16 Sep 2021 16:30:30 -0000 1.16
@@ -1,23 +1,29 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays laws copyright" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>Freedom—or Copyright? (Old Version)
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/freedom-or-copyright-old.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" -->
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div class="article reduced-width">
<h2>Freedom—or Copyright? (Old Version)</h2>
-<div class="announcement">
-<blockquote><p>There is an <a
+<address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address>
+
+<div class="infobox">
+<p>There is an <a
href="/philosophy/freedom-or-copyright.html"> updated version</a> of
-this article.</p></blockquote>
+this article.</p>
</div>
+<hr class="thin" />
-<p>
- by <strong>Richard M. Stallman</strong>
-</p>
-
-<blockquote>
+<div class="introduction">
<p>
The brave new world of e-books: no more used book stores, no more
lending a book to your friend, no more borrowing one from the public
@@ -25,7 +31,7 @@
identifies what you read. Even reading an e-book without
authorization is a crime.
</p>
-</blockquote>
+</div>
<p>
Once upon a time, in the age of the printing press, an industrial
@@ -84,7 +90,7 @@
<p>
We still have the same old freedoms in using paper books. But if
e-books replace printed books, that exception will do little
-good. With “electronic ink”, which makes it possible to
+good. With “electronic ink,” which makes it possible to
download new text onto an apparently printed piece of paper, even
newspapers could become ephemeral. Imagine: no more used book stores;
no more lending a book to your friend; no more borrowing one from the
@@ -100,7 +106,7 @@
public has been taught that copyright exists to “protect”
the copyright holders, with the implication that the public's
interests do not count. (The biased term
-“<a href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html"> intellectual
+“<a href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html">intellectual
property</a>” also promotes that view; in addition, it
encourages the mistake of trying to treat several laws that are almost
totally different—such as copyright law and patent law—as
@@ -135,12 +141,14 @@
a small amount of money, the whole rationale for restricting verbatim
copying will go away. If you like a book, and a box pops up on your
computer saying “Click here to give the author one
-dollar”, wouldn't you click? Copyright for books and music, as
+dollar,” wouldn't you click? Copyright for books and music, as
it applies to distributing verbatim unmodified copies, will be
entirely obsolete. And not a moment too soon!</p>
+</div>
+
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
-<div id="footer">
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
<div class="unprintable">
<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to <a
@@ -158,29 +166,46 @@
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org";>
<web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p>
- <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of
our web pages, see <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
README</a>. -->
Please see the <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README</a> for
-information on coordinating and submitting translations of this article.</p>
+information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p>
</div>
-<p>Copyright © 1999, 2008 Richard M. Stallman</p>
+<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
+ files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should
+ be under CC BY-ND 4.0. Please do NOT change or remove this
+ without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first.
+ Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the
+ document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the
+ document was modified, or published.
+
+ If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too.
+ Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying
+ years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable
+ year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
+ being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system).
+
+ There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+ Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+<p>Copyright © 1999 Richard Stallman</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
-href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/";>Creative
-Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p>
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/04/12 12:40:05 $
+$Date: 2021/09/16 16:30:30 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
-</div>
+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
</body>
</html>
Index: funding-art-vs-funding-software.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/funding-art-vs-funding-software.html,v
retrieving revision 1.15
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -b -r1.15 -r1.16
--- funding-art-vs-funding-software.html 27 Aug 2017 14:56:06 -0000
1.15
+++ funding-art-vs-funding-software.html 16 Sep 2021 16:30:31 -0000
1.16
@@ -1,14 +1,21 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.84 -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays cultural funding" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>Funding Art vs Funding Software
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include
virtual="/philosophy/po/funding-art-vs-funding-software.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" -->
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div class="article reduced-width">
<h2>Funding Art vs Funding Software</h2>
-<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";><strong>Richard
-Stallman</strong></a></p>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/";>Richard
+Stallman</a></address>
<p>I've proposed two new systems to fund artists in a world where we have
legalized sharing (noncommercial redistribution of exact copies) of
@@ -27,9 +34,8 @@
<p>In my view, works designed to be used to do practical jobs must be
free. The people who use them deserve to have control over the jobs
they do, which requires control over the works they use to do them,
-which requires the four freedoms (see <a
-href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">
-http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html</a>). Works to do practical
+which requires <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">the four freedoms</a>.
+Works to do practical
jobs include educational resources, reference works, recipes, text
fonts and, of course, software; these works must be free.</p>
@@ -122,10 +128,11 @@
href="https://my.fsf.org/donate/directed-donations";> targeted
donations for certain specific projects</a>. Other free software
organizations do this too.</p>
+</div>
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
-<div id="footer">
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
<div class="unprintable">
<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
@@ -143,13 +150,13 @@
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org";>
<web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p>
- <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of
our web pages, see <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
README</a>. -->
Please see the <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
-README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
of this article.</p>
</div>
@@ -170,7 +177,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2013, 2017 Richard Stallman</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2013 Richard Stallman</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
@@ -180,10 +187,10 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/08/27 14:56:06 $
+$Date: 2021/09/16 16:30:31 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
-</div>
+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
</body>
</html>
Index: gif.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/gif.html,v
retrieving revision 1.66
retrieving revision 1.67
diff -u -b -r1.66 -r1.67
--- gif.html 15 Dec 2018 14:02:38 -0000 1.66
+++ gif.html 16 Sep 2021 16:30:32 -0000 1.67
@@ -1,21 +1,28 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.86 -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays laws patents" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>Why There Are No GIF Files on GNU Web Pages
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/gif.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" -->
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div class="article reduced-width">
<h2>Why There Are No GIF Files on GNU Web Pages</h2>
-
-<blockquote><p>There is no special patent threat to GIF format nowadays
+<div class="infobox">
+<p><em>There is no special patent threat to GIF format nowadays
as far as we know; <a href="#venuenote">the patents that were used to
attack GIF have expired</a>. Nonetheless, this article will remain
pertinent as long as programs can be forbidden by patents, since the
same sorts of things could happen in any area of computing. See
-<a href="/server/fsf-html-style-sheet.html#UseofGraphics"> our web
-site policies regarding GIFs</a>, and
-our <a href="/server/standards/">web guidelines</a>.</p></blockquote>
-
+<a href="/server/standards/gnu-website-guidelines.html#UseofGraphics">our
+website policies regarding GIFs</a>.</em></p>
+</div>
+<hr class="thin" />
<p>
There are no GIFs on the GNU web site because of the
@@ -61,7 +68,7 @@
developers producing versions of software products for the Internet
prior to 1995. The company does not require licensing, or fees to be
paid for non-commercial, non-profit offerings on the Internet,
-including “Freeware”.</p></blockquote>
+including “Freeware.”</p></blockquote>
<p>
Unfortunately, this doesn't permit
@@ -83,10 +90,10 @@
</p>
<p>
-The <a href="http://www.fsf.org";>Free Software Foundation</a> is a
-non-commercial, non-profit organization, so strictly speaking the
-income from our sales of <a href="http://shop.fsf.org/";>CD-ROMs</a>
-is not “profit”. Perhaps this means we could include
+The <a href="https://www.fsf.org";>Free Software Foundation</a> is a
+noncommercial, nonprofit organization, so strictly speaking the
+income from our sales of <a href="https://shop.fsf.org/";>CD-ROMs</a>
+is not “profit.” Perhaps this means we could include
a GIF program on our CD-ROM and claim to be acting within
the scope of the Unisys permission—or perhaps not. But since we
know that other redistributors of GNU would be unable to include it,
@@ -197,7 +204,7 @@
</p>
<p>
-The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics";>PNG
+The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics";>PNG
format</a> is a patent-free compressed format. We hope it will become
widely supported; then we will use it. We do provide PNG versions of
most of the <a href="/graphics/graphics.html">images on this server</a>.
@@ -208,7 +215,7 @@
see <a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150329143651/http://progfree.org/Patents/patents.html";>the
League for
Programming Freedom GIF page</a>. Through that page you
can find more information about the <a
-href="http://endsoftpatents.org/";>problem of software patents in
+href="https://endsoftwarepatents.org/";>problem of software patents in
general.</a>
</p>
@@ -218,14 +225,17 @@
</p>
<p>
-<a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171203193534/http://burnallgifs.org/";>http://burnallgifs.org</a>
is a
+<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171203193534/http://burnallgifs.org/";>
+burnallgifs.org</a> is a
web site devoted to discouraging the use of GIF files on
the web.
</p>
+<div class="column-limit"></div>
-<h3>Footnote:</h3>
-
-<p><a href="#returnnote" id="venuenote">1.</a> We were able to search
+<h3 class="footnote">Footnote</h3>
+<ol>
+<li id="venuenote"><a href="#returnnote">↑</a>
+<p>We were able to search
the patent databases of the USA, Canada, Japan, and the European
Union. The Unisys patent expired on 20 June 2003 in the USA, in Europe
it expired on 18 June 2004, in Japan the patent expired on 20 June
@@ -238,11 +248,14 @@
might cover them. However, we have not heard reports of threats
against use of animated GIFs. Any software can be threatened by
patents, but we have no reason to consider animated GIFs to be in
-particular danger — no particular reason to shun them.</p>
+particular danger—no particular reason to shun them.</p>
+</li>
+</ol>
+</div>
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
-<div id="footer">
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
<div class="unprintable">
<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to <a
@@ -260,16 +273,33 @@
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org";>
<web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p>
- <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of
our web pages, see <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
README</a>. -->
Please see the <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README</a> for
-information on coordinating and submitting translations of this article.</p>
+information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p>
</div>
-<p>Copyright © 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2015, 2018
Free
+<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
+ files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should
+ be under CC BY-ND 4.0. Please do NOT change or remove this
+ without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first.
+ Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the
+ document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the
+ document was modified, or published.
+
+ If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too.
+ Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying
+ years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable
+ year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
+ being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system).
+
+ There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+ Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+<p>Copyright © 1997-1999, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2013 Free
Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
@@ -280,7 +310,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/guardian-article.html,v
retrieving revision 1.30
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -b -r1.30 -r1.31
--- guardian-article.html 12 Apr 2014 12:40:10 -0000 1.30
+++ guardian-article.html 16 Sep 2021 16:30:32 -0000 1.31
@@ -1,23 +1,31 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
-<title>Guardian Article on Software Patents
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays laws patents" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
+<title>Opposing The European Software Patent Directive
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/guardian-article.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" -->
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div class="article reduced-width">
<h2>Opposing The European Software Patent Directive</h2>
-<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";><strong>Richard
-Stallman</strong></a> and <strong>Nick Hill</strong></p>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/";>Richard
+Stallman</a> and Nick Hill</address>
-<blockquote>
-<p>
+<div class="infobox">
+<p><em>
The European Union software patent directive, which this 2003 article
opposed, was ultimately dropped by its own supporters after facing
lots of opposition. However, they later found another way to impose
software patents on most of Europe: through fine print in
the <a href="/philosophy/europes-unitary-patent.html">unitary
-patent</a>.</p>
-</blockquote>
+patent</a>.</em></p>
+</div>
+<hr class="thin" />
<p>
The computer industry is threatened by a Wild West-style land grab. The
@@ -55,8 +63,8 @@
The US, which has had software patents since the 1980s, shows what this can
do to development of everyday software. For example, in the US there are 39
monopoly claims over a standard way of showing video using software
-techniques (the <abbr title="Moving Picture Experts Group">MPEG</abbr>
-2 format).</p>
+techniques (the <abbr title="Moving Picture Experts Group">MPEG</abbr> 2
+format).</p>
<p>
Since a single piece of software can embody thousands of ideas together,
@@ -111,7 +119,7 @@
<p>
The text says that computer-related patents must make a
“technical contribution”; the commission says that means
-“no software patents”. But “technical” can be
+“no software patents.” But “technical” can be
interpreted in many ways. The European patent office is already
registering software patents of dubious legal validity, defying the
treaty that governs it and the governments that established it.
@@ -135,12 +143,14 @@
<p>
Please go
-to <a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20031216123801/http://www.softwarepatents.co.uk";>http://www.softwarepatents.co.uk
[Archived Page]</a> to learn more, and then talk with the <abbr>MEP</abbr>s
from
+to <a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20031216123801/http://www.softwarepatents.co.uk";>
+softwarepatents.co.uk [Archived Page]</a> to learn more, and then talk with
the MEPs from
your region.</p>
+</div>
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<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
-<div id="footer">
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
<div class="unprintable">
<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
@@ -158,19 +168,19 @@
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org";>
<web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p>
- <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of
our web pages, see <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
README</a>. -->
Please see the <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
-README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
of this article.</p>
</div>
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- be under CC BY-ND 3.0 US. Please do NOT change or remove this
+ be under CC BY-ND 4.0. Please do NOT change or remove this
without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first.
Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the
document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the
@@ -185,20 +195,20 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2003 Richard M Stallman and Nicholas R Hill</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2003, 2013 Richard M. Stallman and Nicholas R. Hill</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
-href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/";>Creative
-Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p>
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
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-$Date: 2014/04/12 12:40:10 $
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+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
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</html>
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retrieving revision 1.29
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diff -u -b -r1.29 -r1.30
--- ipjustice.html 6 Aug 2015 16:25:11 -0000 1.29
+++ ipjustice.html 16 Sep 2021 16:30:32 -0000 1.30
@@ -1,12 +1,19 @@
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-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays laws noip" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>Reject IP Enforcement Directive
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/ipjustice.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
-
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" -->
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div class="article reduced-width">
<h2>Reject IP Enforcement Directive</h2>
+<div class="thin"></div>
<p>
A coalition of civil liberties and consumer groups opposes a new
@@ -15,8 +22,8 @@
</p>
<p>
-<a href="http://www.ipjustice.org/digital-rights/ipj-white-paper-acta-2008/";>
-http://www.ipjustice.org/digital-rights/ipj-white-paper-acta-2008/</a>
+<a href="https://www.ipjustice.org/digital-rights/ipj-white-paper-acta-2008/";>
+ipjustice.org/digital-rights/ipj-white-paper-acta-2008</a>
</p>
<p>
@@ -32,10 +39,11 @@
a <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty">
propaganda term</a> for those who aim to restrict the public.
</p>
+</div>
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
-<div id="footer">
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
<div class="unprintable">
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@@ -53,13 +61,13 @@
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org";>
<web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p>
- <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of
our web pages, see <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
README</a>. -->
Please see the <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
-README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
of this article.</p>
</div>
@@ -80,7 +88,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2003, 2008, 2013, 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
@@ -90,10 +98,10 @@
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-$Date: 2015/08/06 16:25:11 $
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+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
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--- kind-communication.html 4 Apr 2021 00:47:32 -0000 1.18
+++ kind-communication.html 16 Sep 2021 16:30:32 -0000 1.19
@@ -1,23 +1,21 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.86 -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays upholding action" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>GNU Kind Communications Guidelines
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
-<style type="text/css" media="print,screen"><!--
-@media (min-width: 57em) {
- h2, h3, hr.thin, .byline { margin-left: -5% }
-}
---></style>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/kind-communication.translist" -->
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-
-<div class="reduced-width">
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" -->
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div class="article reduced-width">
<h2>GNU Kind Communications Guidelines</h2>
<address class="byline">by
-<a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></address>
-<hr class="thin" />
+<a href="https://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></address>
-<div class="article">
<h3>Purpose</h3>
<p>The GNU Project encourages contributions from anyone who wishes to
@@ -141,10 +139,9 @@
<p>By making an effort to follow these guidelines, we will encourage
more contribution to our projects, and our discussions will be
friendlier and reach conclusions more easily.</p>
+<div class="column-limit"></div>
-</div>
-
-<h3 style="font-size:1.1em">Footnote</h3>
+<h3 class="footnote">Footnote</h3>
<ol>
<li id="f1">
@@ -170,7 +167,7 @@
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-<div id="footer">
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
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@@ -188,13 +185,13 @@
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org";>
<web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p>
- <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of
our web pages, see <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
README</a>. -->
Please see the <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
-README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
of this article.</p>
</div>
@@ -215,7 +212,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2018-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
@@ -226,7 +223,7 @@
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--- no-ip-ethos.html 12 Apr 2014 12:40:29 -0000 1.26
+++ no-ip-ethos.html 16 Sep 2021 16:30:32 -0000 1.27
@@ -1,16 +1,21 @@
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-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
-
-<title>Don't Let ‘Intellectual Property’ Twist Your Ethos</title>
-
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays laws noip" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
+<title>Don't Let “Intellectual Property” Twist Your Ethos</title>
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+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" -->
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div class="article reduced-width">
+ <h2>Don't Let “Intellectual Property” Twist Your Ethos</h2>
- <h2>Don't Let ‘Intellectual Property’ Twist Your Ethos</h2>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/";>Richard
+Stallman</a></address>
- <p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard M.
- Stallman</a><br />
- June 09, 2006</p>
+<p><i>June 09, 2006</i></p>
<p>Most free software licenses are based on copyright law, and
for good reason: Copyright law is much more uniform among
@@ -26,10 +31,10 @@
<p>It's true that in countries like China, where copyright law is
generally not enforced, we may also have trouble enforcing free
software license agreements, as Heather Meeker suggests in her
- recent LinuxInsider column, <a href=
- "http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/50421.html";>“Only in
- America? Copyright Law Key to Global Free Software
- Model”</a>.</p>
+ recent <cite>LinuxInsider</cite> column, “<a
+ href=
"https://linuxinsider.com/story/only-in-america-copyright-law-key-to-global-free-software-model-50421.html";>Only
+ in America? Copyright Law Key to Global Free Software
+ Model</a>.”</p>
<p>However, this is not a reason to press for more copyright
enforcement in China. Although we would use it to protect
@@ -38,17 +43,17 @@
away.</p>
<p>Ironically, we might have more success enforcing copyright in
- China than Microsoft, Disney and Sony — because what we would
+ China than Microsoft, Disney and Sony—because what we would
want to do is easier.</p>
<p>Disney wishes to stamp out semi-underground organizations that
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
+ GNU <a href="/licenses/gpl.html">GPL</a>, is the release of
proprietary software products based on our code. That kind of abuse
- is at its worst when carried out by large, well-known companies
- — and they are easier targets for enforcement. So GPL
+ is at its worst when carried out by large, well-known companies—and
+ they are easier targets for enforcement. So GPL
enforcement in China is not a lost cause, though it won't be
easy.</p>
@@ -59,7 +64,7 @@
material copyrighted in the U.S. by moving it through China, as
she ought to know.</p>
- <p>If someone violates the GNU GPL by distributing a non-free
+ <p>If someone violates the GNU GPL by distributing a nonfree
modified version of GCC in the U.S., it won't make any difference
if it was obtained or modified in China. U.S. copyright law will
be enforced just the same.</p>
@@ -67,8 +72,8 @@
<p>Although this error might seem to be the central point of
Meeker's article, it is not. The real central point of the article
is the perspective embodied in her use of the term
- “intellectual property”. She uses this term pervasively
- as though it refers to something coherent — something it makes
+ “intellectual property.” She uses this term pervasively
+ as though it refers to something coherent—something it makes
sense to talk about and think about. If you believe that, you have
accepted the article's hidden assumption.</p>
@@ -94,9 +99,9 @@
mistakes.</p>
<p>What is really in the U.S. Constitution? It doesn't mention
- “intellectual property”, and it says nothing at all
- about most of the laws that term is applied to. Only two of them —
- copyright law and patent law — are treated there.</p>
+ “intellectual property,” and it says nothing at all
+ about most of the laws that term is applied to. Only two of
+ them—copyright law and patent law—are treated there.</p>
<p>What does the Constitution say about them? What is its ethos?
It is nothing like the “intellectual property ethos”
@@ -106,15 +111,15 @@
<p>What the Constitution says is that copyright law and patent law
are optional. They need not exist. It says that if they do exist,
- their purpose is to provide a public benefit — to promote
+ their purpose is to provide a public benefit—to promote
progress by providing artificial incentives.</p>
<p>They are not rights that their holders are entitled to; they
are artificial privileges that we might, or might not, want to
hand out to encourage people to do what we find useful.</p>
- <p>It's a wise policy. Too bad Congress — which has to carry
- it out on our behalf — takes its orders from Hollywood and
+ <p>It's a wise policy. Too bad Congress—which has to carry
+ it out on our behalf—takes its orders from Hollywood and
Microsoft instead of from us.</p>
<p>If you appreciate the U.S. Constitution's wisdom, don't let
@@ -126,11 +131,11 @@
have only one thing in common: Each is legitimate only as far as
it serves the public interest. Your interest in your freedom is a
part of the public interest that must be served.</p>
+</div>
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
-
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
-<div id="footer">
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
<div class="unprintable">
<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
@@ -148,30 +153,47 @@
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org";>
<web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p>
- <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of
our web pages, see <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
README</a>. -->
Please see the <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
-README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
of this article.</p>
</div>
-<p>Copyright © 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
+ files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should
+ be under CC BY-ND 4.0. Please do NOT change or remove this
+ without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first.
+ Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the
+ document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the
+ document was modified, or published.
+
+ If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too.
+ Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying
+ years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable
+ year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
+ being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system).
+
+ There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+ Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+<p>Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
-href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/";>Creative
-Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p>
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
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-$Date: 2014/04/12 12:40:29 $
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+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
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</html>
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/vaccination.html,v
retrieving revision 1.12
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diff -u -b -r1.12 -r1.13
--- vaccination.html 7 Jun 2021 11:01:32 -0000 1.12
+++ vaccination.html 16 Sep 2021 16:30:32 -0000 1.13
@@ -1,15 +1,19 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 -->
<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="thirdparty" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>Viral Code and Vaccination - GNU Project - Free Software
Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/vaccination.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
-<div class="reduced-width">
-<h2 class="c">Viral Code and Vaccination</h2>
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" -->
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div class="article reduced-width">
+<h2>Viral Code and Vaccination</h2>
-<address class="byline c">by Robert J. Chassell</address>
+<address class="byline">by Robert J. Chassell</address>
-<div class="article">
<p>When others hurt me, I try to defend myself. But some tell me that
this makes them sick. They tell me that I should permit people to rob
me of my work. They tell me that I should never try to defend
@@ -23,9 +27,9 @@
own work, a right I possess under current copyright law.</p>
<p>Of course, the language is a little less feverish than this.
-Usually, I myself am not called “infectious”. Rather, the
-legal defense that I use is called “infectious”. The
-license I choose is called “viral”.</p>
+Usually, I myself am not called “infectious.” Rather, the
+legal defense that I use is called “infectious.” The
+license I choose is called “viral.”</p>
<p>In every day language, words such as “infect” and
“virus” describe disease. The rhetoric is metaphorical.
@@ -56,7 +60,6 @@
make fixes or improvements to it, and forbid you from using that
code. I personally dislike this arrangement, but it exists.</p>
</div>
-</div>
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
@@ -88,7 +91,7 @@
</div>
<p>
-Copyright © 2008, 2014 Robert J. Chassell
+Copyright © 2008 Robert J. Chassell
</p>
<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this
@@ -99,7 +102,7 @@
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+$Date: 2021/09/16 16:30:32 $
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@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
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+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays cultural ns" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
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- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" -->
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div class="article reduced-width">
<h2>What's Wrong with YouTube</h2>
<div class="thin"></div>
@@ -91,9 +96,9 @@
</ul>
<p>One thing about YouTube that is <em>not</em> a moral strike against
-it is nonfree software on YouTube servers — if there is any. We
+it is nonfree software on YouTube servers—if there is any. We
as possible users of YouTube can't tell whether the servers run any
-nonfree software, because that has no effect on us — therefore
+nonfree software, because that has no effect on us—therefore
it doesn't do any wrong to us.</p>
<p>If there are any nonfree programs running on YouTube servers, they
@@ -157,7 +162,24 @@
of this article.</p>
</div>
-<p>Copyright © 2015-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
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+
+<p>Copyright © 2015-2017, 2019-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
@@ -167,7 +189,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2021/03/27 12:56:20 $
+$Date: 2021/09/16 16:30:32 $
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@@ -1,22 +1,24 @@
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-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
-
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 -->
+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays cultural society" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>World Summit on the Information Society - GNU Project - Free Software
Foundation</title>
-
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-
+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" -->
+<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div class="article reduced-width">
<h2>World Summit on the Information Society</h2>
-<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";><strong>Richard
Stallman</strong></a></p>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/";>Richard
+Stallman</a></address>
-<p><em>(Originally published on Newsforge.)</em></p>
-
-<blockquote>
+<div class="introduction">
<p>At <abbr title="World Summit on the Information Society">WSIS</abbr>,
-in a climate of suppression of dissent, the score is 0-0<br />
-<span style="margin-left: 30%">-- Richard Stallman</span></p>
-</blockquote>
+in a climate of suppression of dissent, the score is 0-0.</p>
+</div>
<p>The World Summit on the Information Society is supposed to
formulate plans to end the “digital divide” and make the
@@ -38,14 +40,14 @@
to impose restrictions on citizens of cyberspace.</p>
<p>Part of the digital divide comes from artificial obstacles to the
-sharing of information. This includes the licenses of non-free
+sharing of information. This includes the licenses of nonfree
software, and harmfully restrictive copyright laws. The Brazilian
declaration sought measures to promote free software, but the US
delegation was firmly against it (remember that the Bush campaign got
money from Microsoft). The outcome was a sort of draw, with the final
declaration presenting free software, open source, and proprietary
software as equally legitimate. The US also insisted on praising
-so-called “intellectual property rights”. (That biased
+so-called “intellectual property rights.” (That biased
term <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty">
promotes simplistic over-generalization</a>; for the sake of clear
thinking about the issues of copyright law, and about the very
@@ -91,7 +93,7 @@
<p>Suppression was also visible in the exclusion of certain NGOs from
the summit because their focus on human rights might embarrass the
governments that trample them. For instance, the
-summit <a href="http://www.hrichina.org/en/content/2301";>
+summit <a href="https://www.hrichina.org/en/content/2301";>
refused to accredit Human Rights In China</a>, a group that criticizes
the Chinese government for (among other things) censorship of the
internet.</p>
@@ -114,10 +116,15 @@
participating governments—as if to accord that criminal
corporation the standing of a state.</p>
-</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
+<div class="infobox extra" role="complementary">
+<hr />
+<p>Originally published on <cite>NewsForge</cite>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
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+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
<div class="unprintable">
<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
@@ -135,30 +142,47 @@
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org";>
<web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p>
- <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of
+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of
our web pages, see <a
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Please see the <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
-README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
of this article.</p>
</div>
-<p>Copyright © 2003 Richard M. Stallman</p>
+<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
+ files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should
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+ Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the
+ document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the
+ document was modified, or published.
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+ If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too.
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+ year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including
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+
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+ Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+<p>Copyright © 2003 Richard Stallman</p>
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-href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/";>Creative
-Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p>
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
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-$Date: 2014/08/21 15:01:30 $
+$Date: 2021/09/16 16:30:33 $
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