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limit-patent-effect.html mcvoy.html
network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html
new-monopoly.html nonfree-games.html
nonsoftware-copyleft.html opposing-drm.html
ough-interview.html
patent-reform-is-not-enough.html
pirate-party.html public-domain-manifesto.html
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Index: kevin-cole-response.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/kevin-cole-response.html,v
retrieving revision 1.21
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -b -r1.21 -r1.22
--- kevin-cole-response.html 12 Apr 2014 12:40:11 -0000 1.21
+++ kevin-cole-response.html 19 Sep 2021 15:41:10 -0000 1.22
@@ -1,13 +1,21 @@
<!--#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 upholding action" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>A Response Letter to the Word Attachments
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
-
<meta http-equiv="Keywords" content="GNU, FSF, Free Software Foundation,
Linux, general, public, license, gpl, general public license, freedom,
software, power, rights, word, attachment, word attachment, microsoft" />
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/kevin-cole-response.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!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--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>A Response Letter to the Word Attachments</h2>
+<address class="byline">by Kevin Cole</address>
+
<p>
This is an automatic message:
</p>
@@ -43,28 +51,11 @@
antitrust violations by both the U.S. District Court and the
U.S. Court of Appeals.)
</p>
-
-<!-- If needed, change the copyright block at the bottom. In general,
- pages on the GNU web server should be under CC BY-ND 3.0 US.
- 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. -->
-
+</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
@@ -82,47 +73,30 @@
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>
-<!-- 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 3.0 US. 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 © 2003 Kevin Cole</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 12:40:11 $
+$Date: 2021/09/19 15:41:10 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
-</div>
+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
</body>
</html>
Index: limit-patent-effect.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/limit-patent-effect.html,v
retrieving revision 1.12
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -b -r1.12 -r1.13
--- limit-patent-effect.html 18 Nov 2016 06:31:39 -0000 1.12
+++ limit-patent-effect.html 19 Sep 2021 15:41:10 -0000 1.13
@@ -1,17 +1,20 @@
<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
-<!-- Parent-Version: 1.79 -->
+<!-- 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>Giving the Software Field Protection from Patents
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/limit-patent-effect.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>Giving the Software Field Protection from Patents</h2>
-<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";><strong>Richard
-Stallman</strong></a></p>
-
-<p><em>A version of this article was first published at
-<a
href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-software-patents/";>Wired</a>
-in November 2012.</em></p>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/";>Richard
+Stallman</a></address>
<p>Patents threaten every software developer, and the patent wars we have
long feared have broken out. Software developers and software
@@ -19,11 +22,11 @@
to be free of patents.</p>
<p>The patents that threaten us are often called “software
-patents”, but that term is misleading. Such patents are not
+patents,” but that term is misleading. Such patents are not
about any specific program. Rather, each patent describes some
practical idea, and says that anyone carrying out the idea can be
sued. So it is clearer to call them “computational idea
-patents”.</p>
+patents.”</p>
<p>The US patent system doesn't label patents to say this one's a
“software patent” and that one isn't. Software developers
@@ -64,7 +67,7 @@
trolls” or “bad quality” patents. The worst patent
aggressor today is Apple, which isn't a “troll” by the
usual definition; I don't know whether Apple's patents are “good
-quality”, but the better the patent's “quality” the
+quality,” but the better the patent's “quality” the
more dangerous its threat.</p>
<p>We need to fix the whole problem, not just part of it.</p>
@@ -103,7 +106,7 @@
<ul>
<li>It does not require classifying patents or patent applications as
-“software” or “not software”.</li>
+“software” or “not software.”</li>
<li>It provides developers and users with protection from both existing
and potential future computational idea patents.</li>
<li>Patent lawyers cannot defeat the intended effect by writing
@@ -124,13 +127,24 @@
cooperating… without the fear that some stranger will wipe away
our work.</p>
+<div class="comment" role="complementary">
<p><em>See also:
<a href="/philosophy/patent-reform-is-not-enough.html">
Patent Reform Is Not Enough</a></em></p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="infobox extra" role="complementary">
+<hr />
+<p>A version of this article was first published at
+<a
href="https://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-software-patents/";>
+<cite>Wired</cite></a> in November 2012.</p>
+</div>
+</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
@@ -148,13 +162,13 @@
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 of this article.</p>
+information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p>
</div>
<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
@@ -174,7 +188,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2012, 2013 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
@@ -184,10 +198,10 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2016/11/18 06:31:39 $
+$Date: 2021/09/19 15:41:10 $
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</p>
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-</div>
+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
</body>
</html>
Index: mcvoy.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/mcvoy.html,v
retrieving revision 1.22
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -u -b -r1.22 -r1.23
--- mcvoy.html 12 Apr 2014 12:40:14 -0000 1.22
+++ mcvoy.html 19 Sep 2021 15:41:10 -0000 1.23
@@ -1,12 +1,19 @@
<!--#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 aboutfs free-nonfree" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>Thank You, Larry McVoy
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/mcvoy.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>Thank You, Larry McVoy</h2>
-<p>by <strong>Richard M. Stallman</strong></p>
+<address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address>
<p>
For the first time in my life, I want to thank Larry McVoy. He
@@ -124,10 +131,11 @@
programs are dangerous to you and to your community. Don't let them
get a place in your life.
</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
@@ -145,19 +153,19 @@
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>
<!-- 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 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
@@ -172,20 +180,20 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2005 Richard M. Stallman</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2005 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 12:40:14 $
+$Date: 2021/09/19 15:41:10 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
-</div>
+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
</body>
</html>
Index: network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html
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RCS file:
/webcvs/www/www/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html,v
retrieving revision 1.31
retrieving revision 1.32
diff -u -b -r1.31 -r1.32
--- network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html 18 Dec 2020 06:13:30 -0000
1.31
+++ network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html 19 Sep 2021 15:41:10 -0000
1.32
@@ -1,17 +1,26 @@
<!--#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 cultural ns" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>Network Services Aren't Free or Nonfree; They Raise Other Issues
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include
virtual="/philosophy/po/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.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>Network Services Aren't Free or Nonfree; They Raise Other Issues</h2>
-<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></p>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/";>Richard
+Stallman</a></address>
-<p><strong>Programs and services are different kinds of entities. A
+<div class="introduction">
+<p><em>Programs and services are different kinds of entities. A
program is a work that you can execute; a service is an activity that
-you might interact with.</strong></p>
+you might interact with.</em></p>
+</div>
<p>For programs, we make a distinction between free and nonfree
(proprietary). More precisely, this distinction applies to a program
@@ -151,10 +160,11 @@
free software, and good to favor peer-to-peer communication over
server-based centralized communication, for activities that don't
inherently require a central hub.</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
@@ -172,13 +182,13 @@
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>
@@ -199,7 +209,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2012-2014, 2020 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
@@ -209,7 +219,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2020/12/18 06:13:30 $
+$Date: 2021/09/19 15:41:10 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/new-monopoly.html,v
retrieving revision 1.24
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -b -r1.24 -r1.25
--- new-monopoly.html 15 Dec 2018 14:02:38 -0000 1.24
+++ new-monopoly.html 19 Sep 2021 15:41:10 -0000 1.25
@@ -1,15 +1,23 @@
<!--#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 cultural access" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>U.S. Congress Threatens to Establish a New Kind of Monopoly
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/new-monopoly.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>U.S. Congress Threatens to Establish a New Kind of Monopoly</h2>
+<div class="thin"></div>
<p>
Companies that want monopoly powers to control public use of the
information we get from data bases are trying to pass a law this year
-in the U.S. — creating, for the first time, a private monopoly
+in the U.S.—creating, for the first time, a private monopoly
over repeating publicly known information. They are using the
“good bill, bad bill” method; the “bad” bill
is HR 354; the “good” bill is HR 1858.</p>
@@ -22,8 +30,8 @@
<p>
So a second legislator introduces a more cautious bill, more clearly
written, with some safeguards, avoiding some gross abuses, offering a
-smaller handout to a somewhat broader spectrum of special interests
-— and still diminishing the public treasury or the public's
+smaller handout to a somewhat broader spectrum of special
+interests—and still diminishing the public treasury or the public's
freedom.</p>
<p>
The second bill is typically praised for its “balanced”
@@ -40,8 +48,8 @@
effectively allow facts to become private property, simply through
their inclusion in an electronic data base. Even mentioning more than
a handful of the facts from any data base in a publication would be
-illegal, unless you could get them from some other source —
-often impossible, since in many cases there is no other ultimate
+illegal, unless you could get them from some other source—often
+impossible, since in many cases there is no other ultimate
source for a certain kind of fact.</p>
<p>
Consider for example the scores of professional sports games. The
@@ -74,14 +82,14 @@
court ruled against them. The court said that these page numbers
don't result from creativity, so they are not copyrightable. But they
are indubitably a data base, so HR 354 would prohibit anyone else from
-providing this data to the public — thus granting West a
+providing this data to the public—thus granting West a
permanent monopoly on the law itself.</p>
<p>
HR 354 would also interfere with scientific research, genealogical
research, publication of stock prices, and many other areas of life
and work. So it's no wonder that it has generated strong opposition.
The Supreme Court might reject the bill as unconstitutional, but no
-one wants to rely on this. Hence HR 1858 — this year's
+one wants to rely on this. Hence HR 1858—this year's
“good” bill.</p>
<p>
HR 1858 explicitly avoids most of the outrageous problems. It
@@ -101,11 +109,11 @@
by default, it doesn't exclude those made by or for state
governments; this is a substantial loophole in HR 1858.)</p>
<p>
-A wide range of organizations are supporting HR 1858 — including
+A wide range of organizations are supporting HR 1858—including
many universities and professional organizations. Some of the letters
of support show a clear desire for some kind of monopoly power.</p>
<p>
-HR 1858 is much less harmful than HR 354 — if we have to choose
+HR 1858 is much less harmful than HR 354—if we have to choose
between the two, we should prefer HR 1858. But should we have to
choose between a big loss of freedom and a smaller one?</p>
<p>
@@ -116,8 +124,8 @@
a general assumption that nobody will do anything without a monopoly
over the results.</p>
<p>
-Just a few years ago, people said the same thing about software
-— that nobody would write programs without having a monopoly on
+Just a few years ago, people said the same thing about software—that
+nobody would write programs without having a monopoly on
them. The Free Software movement has proved that this is not true,
and in the process, we have refuted that general assumption.
Selfishness is not the whole of human nature. One kind of
@@ -127,7 +135,7 @@
But data bases are not software. Will anyone develop data bases
without a data base monopoly law?</p>
<p>
-We know they will — because they already do. Many electronic
+We know they will—because they already do. Many electronic
data bases are available now, and the number is increasing, not
decreasing. And many kinds of data base are byproducts or even
preconditions of other activities that people do for other
@@ -177,10 +185,10 @@
<a href="mailto:database-letters@gnu.org";><database-letters@gnu.org></a>
also.</p>
-<pre>
-Dear Representative So-and-so
-
-
+<blockquote class="emph-box">
+<p>
+Dear Representative So-and-so,
+</p><p>
Congress is considering laws to establish a new kind of monopoly on
electronic data bases. I am against the whole idea of this, because
it would restrict the freedom of computer users. Private interests
@@ -188,27 +196,28 @@
public knowledge. As a measure to promote business, this is
premature; the Internet is changing very fast, and passing any law
about this issue in 1999 would be foolish.
-
-<span class="gnun-split"></span>
+</p><p>
Multiple alternatives are being considered for this bill; HR 354 is
especially drastic and dangerous, while HR 1858 is less so. If you
have a chance to vote on the choice between them, please choose HR
1858. But when the data base monopoly bill ultimately comes up for a
vote, I ask you to vote against it, regardless of the details.
-
-
-Sincerely,
+</p><p>
+Sincerely,<br />
Jane Q. Public
-</pre>
+</p>
+</blockquote>
+
<p>
There exists a <a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080906221815/http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cfm";>
list of senators</a> and a service to <a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080611003520/https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml";>
assist you in writing</a> to representative in the U.S. Congress
[archived].</p>
+</div>
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-<div id="footer">
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
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@@ -226,13 +235,13 @@
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
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+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
of this article.</p>
</div>
@@ -253,7 +262,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 1999, 2007, 2013, 2016, 2018 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 1999 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
@@ -263,7 +272,7 @@
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+++ nonfree-games.html 19 Sep 2021 15:41:10 -0000 1.33
@@ -1,12 +1,20 @@
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+<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html -->
+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays cultural drm" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>Nonfree DRM'd Games on GNU/Linux: Good or Bad?
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/nonfree-games.translist" -->
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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>Nonfree DRM'd Games on GNU/Linux: Good or Bad?</h2>
-<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></p>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/";>Richard
+Stallman</a></address>
<p>A well known company, Valve, that distributes nonfree computer games
with Digital Restrictions Management, recently announced it would
@@ -39,7 +47,7 @@
<p>However, if you're going to use these games, you're better off using
them on GNU/Linux rather than on Microsoft Windows. At least you avoid
-<a href="http://upgradefromwindows8.org/";>the harm to your freedom that Windows
+<a href="https://www.fsf.org/windows";>the harm to your freedom that Windows
would do</a>.</p>
<p>Thus, in direct practical terms, this development can do both harm
@@ -59,14 +67,14 @@
not be gratis. It is feasible to develop free games commercially,
while respecting your freedom to change the software you use. Since
the art in the game is not software, it is not ethically imperative to
-make the art free — though free art is an additional
+make the art free—though free art is an additional
contribution. There is in fact free game software developed by
companies, as well as free games developed noncommercially by
volunteers. Crowdfunding development will only get easier.</p>
<p>But if we suppose that it is <em>not feasible</em> in the current
situation to develop a certain
-kind of free game — what would follow then? There's no good in
+kind of free game—what would follow then? There's no good in
writing it as a nonfree game. To have freedom in your computing,
requires rejecting nonfree software, pure and simple.
You as a freedom-lover won't use the nonfree game if it exists, so
@@ -77,21 +85,22 @@
GNU/Linux as support for our cause. Instead you could tell people
about the <a href="https://libregamewiki.org/Main_Page";>libre games
wiki</a> that attempts to catalog free
-games, <a href="http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php";> the Free Game
+games, <a href="https://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php";> the Free Game
Dev Forum</a>, and the LibrePlanet Gaming
-Collective's <a
href="http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Gaming_Collective";>
+Collective's <a
href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Gaming_Collective";>
free gaming night.</a> </p>
-<h3>Notes</h3>
+<h3>Note</h3>
<p>
-<a
href="http://web-old.archive.org/web/20191125215630/http://onpon4.github.io/articles/gaming-trap.html";>
+<a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191125215630/http://onpon4.github.io/articles/gaming-trap.html";>
Watch out for
“nonfree game data” that actually contains software.</a></p>
+</div>
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-<div id="footer">
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
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@@ -109,13 +118,13 @@
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
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+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
of this article.</p>
</div>
@@ -136,7 +145,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 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
@@ -146,7 +155,7 @@
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+++ nonsoftware-copyleft.html 19 Sep 2021 15:41:10 -0000 1.23
@@ -1,39 +1,45 @@
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+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="thirdparty" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>Applying Copyleft To Non-Software Information
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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+<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" -->
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+<div class="article reduced-width">
<h2>Applying Copyleft To Non-Software Information</h2>
-<p>by <a href="http://dsl.org/";><strong>Michael Stutz</strong></a></p>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="http://dsl.org/";>Michael
Stutz</a></address>
<h3 id="what">First, what is Copyleft?</h3>
<p>
The entry for
-“<a href="/copyleft/copyleft.html">copyleft</a>” in the
+“<a href="/licenses/copyleft.html">copyleft</a>” in the
definitive hacker lexicon, the
<a href="http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/c/copyleft.html";>Jargon
File</a>, reads:</p>
<blockquote><p>
- copyleft: /kop'ee-left/ [play on ‘copyright’] n. 1. The
- copyright notice (‘General Public License’) carried by
+ copyleft: /kop'ee-left/ [play on “copyright”] n. 1. The
+ copyright notice (“General Public License”) carried by
GNU EMACS and other Free Software Foundation software, granting
reuse and reproduction rights to all comers (but see also General
Public Virus). 2. By extension, any copyright notice intended to
achieve similar aims.
</p></blockquote>
-<p>The idea of <a href="/copyleft/copyleft.html">copyleft</a>
-originated with über-hacker <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>
+<p>The idea of <a href="/licenses/copyleft.html">copyleft</a>
+originated with über-hacker <a href="https://www.stallman.org/";>
Richard Stallman</a> in 1983 when he started
the <a href="/gnu/gnu-history.html">GNU Project</a>. In brief, his
goal was “to develop a complete free Unix-like operating
system.” As part of that goal, he invented and wrote
-the <a href="/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public License</a>, a
+the <a href="/licenses/gpl.html">GNU General Public License</a>, a
legal construct that included a copyright notice but added to it (or,
technically, removed certain restrictions), so its terms allowed for
the freedoms of reuse, modification and reproduction of a work or its
@@ -45,7 +51,7 @@
well as prevents the use of the author's name as author of a distorted
version of the work; it also prevents intentional distortion of the
work by others and prevents destruction of the work. But it also
-carries other restrictions — such as restricting the
+carries other restrictions—such as restricting the
reproduction or modification of a work.</p>
<p>
@@ -61,17 +67,17 @@
<h3 id="why">Why is Copyleft important, or even necessary?</h3>
<p>
-Certain restrictions of copyright — such as distribution and
-modification — are not very useful to “cyberia,” the
+Certain restrictions of copyright—such as distribution and
+modification—are not very useful to “cyberia,” the
“free, apolitical, democratic community” that constitutes
the internetworked digital world.</p>
<p>
-With computers, perfect copies of a digital work can easily be made
-— and even modified, or further distributed — by others,
+With computers, perfect copies of a digital work can easily be
+made—and even modified, or further distributed—by others,
with no loss of the original work. As individuals interact in cyberia,
-sharing information — then reacting and building upon it —
-is not only natural, but this is the <em>only</em> way for individual
+sharing information—then reacting and building upon it—is
+not only natural, but this is the <em>only</em> way for individual
beings to thrive in a community. In essence, the idea of copyleft is
basic to the natural propagation of digital information among humans
in a society. This is why the regular notion of copyright does not
@@ -96,7 +102,7 @@
<p>
It <em>is</em> good enough! The GNU GPL is not only a document of
significant historical and literary value, but it is in wide use today
-for countless software programs — those as formal part of the
+for countless software programs—those as formal part of the
GNU Project and otherwise. The GNU GPL originated for the specific
goal of sharing software among computer programmers. However, looking
closely at the GPL, it appears that the same License can be easily
@@ -113,7 +119,7 @@
It's simple. While a particular situation may require or inspire its
own specific License, possibly similar to the GNU GPL, all that a
copyleft notice must really do is fulfill the points as defined above
-in “<a href="#what">First, what is Copyleft?</a>”. Using
+in “<a href="#what">First, what is Copyleft?</a>.” Using
the GNU GPL to copyleft your work is easy.</p>
<p>
@@ -121,14 +127,14 @@
which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may
be distributed under the terms of this General Public License,”
so this “Program,” then, may not necessarily be a computer
-software program — any work of any nature that can be
+software program—any work of any nature that can be
copyrighted can be copylefted with the GNU GPL.</p>
<p>
The GNU GPL references the “source code” of a work; this
“source code” will mean different things for different
-kinds of information, but the definition of “source code”
-— provided in the GNU GPL — holds true in any case:
+kinds of information, but the definition of “source
+code”—provided in the GNU GPL—holds true in any case:
“The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work
for making modifications to it.”</p>
@@ -143,15 +149,16 @@
included at the start of the “source code” of the work is
modified in language slightly:</p>
-<pre>
- <one line to give the work's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
+<blockquote class="emph-box">
+<p>
+ <one line to give the work's name and a brief idea of what it
does.><br />
Copyright (C) yyyy <name of author>
-
+</p><p>
This information is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
-
+</p><p>
This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
@@ -160,7 +167,8 @@
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
USA.
-</pre>
+</p>
+</blockquote>
<h3 id="where">Where do I go from here?</h3>
@@ -179,17 +187,18 @@
<p>Some of my own non-software copylefted works include texts
(literature, reviews, <a
href="http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_toc.html";>technical</a>)
and music.</p>
+<div class="column-limit"></div>
-<h3 id="fn">Footnote</h3>
-
+<h3 id="fn" class="footnote">Footnote</h3>
<ol>
<li id="f1">Before 2020, “free software” was confusingly
-referred to as “freely-redistributable”.</li>
+referred to as “freely-redistributable.”</li>
</ol>
+</div>
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-<div id="footer">
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
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@@ -207,7 +216,7 @@
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>. -->
@@ -217,23 +226,6 @@
of this article.</p>
</div>
-<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
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- 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, 2020 Michael Stutz</p>
<p>
@@ -245,7 +237,7 @@
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+$Date: 2021/09/19 15:41:10 $
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@@ -1,20 +1,21 @@
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+<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays cultural drm" -->
+<!--#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>Opposing Digital Rights Mismanagement<br />
<span style="font-size: .7em">(Or Digital Restrictions Management, as we now
call it)</span></h2>
-<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";><strong>Richard Stallman</strong></a>
-</p>
-<p><em>First published by BusinessWeek Online.</em></p>
-
-<blockquote class="announcement"><p>
-<a href="http://defectivebydesign.org";>Join our campaign against DRM</a>.
-</p></blockquote>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/";>Richard
+Stallman</a></address>
<p>In 1989, in a very different world, I wrote the first version of the GNU
General Public License, a license that gives computer users freedom. The
@@ -41,6 +42,11 @@
by their manufacturers before we buy them—they are designed to
restrict what we can use them to do.
</p>
+
+<div class="announcement comment" role="complementary"><p>
+<a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org";>Join our campaign against DRM</a>.
+</p></div>
+
<p>
First, there was the TiVo. People may think of it as an appliance to
record TV programs, but it contains a real computer running a GNU/Linux
@@ -64,7 +70,7 @@
program can access it. If Disney distributes movies this way, you'll
be unable to exercise your legal rights of fair use and de minimis
use. If an application records your data this way, it will be the
-ultimate in vendor lock-in. This too destroys freedom No. 1 — if
+ultimate in vendor lock-in. This too destroys freedom No. 1; if
modified versions of a program cannot access the same data, you can't
really change the program to do what you wish. Something like
Palladium is planned for a coming version of Windows.
@@ -81,9 +87,9 @@
devices to be “robust”—meaning you cannot change
them. Its implementors will surely want to include GPL-covered
software, trampling freedom No. 1. This scheme should get
-“AACSed,” and a boycott of HD DVD and Blu-ray has already
-been announced
-(<a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140217075603/http://bluraysucks.com/";>http://bluraysucks.com/
[archived]</a>).
+“AACSed,” and <a
+href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140217075603/http://bluraysucks.com/";>
+a boycott of HD DVD and Blu-ray has already been announced</a>.
</p>
<p>
Allowing a few businesses to organize a scheme to deny our freedoms for
@@ -127,9 +133,14 @@
Defending freedom means thwarting DRM.
</p>
+<div class="infobox extra" role="complementary">
+<p>First published by <cite>BusinessWeek Online</cite>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
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-<div id="footer">
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
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@@ -147,13 +158,13 @@
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<web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p>
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+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of
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+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
of this article.</p>
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@@ -174,7 +185,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2006, 2017 Richard M. Stallman</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2006 Richard Stallman</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
@@ -184,10 +195,10 @@
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@@ -1,14 +1,23 @@
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+<!--#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" -->
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div class="article reduced-width">
<h2>An interview for OUGH!</h2>
-<p><em>This is a transcript of an interview with Richard
-Stallman conducted by Theodoros Papatheodorou [<a href="#f1">1</a>]
-in May, 2012.</em></p>
+<div class="infobox">
+<p>This is a transcript of an interview with Richard
+Stallman conducted by Theodoros Papatheodorou <a
href="#f1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>
+in May, 2012.</p>
+</div>
<hr class="thin" />
<p>Richard Stallman, the free software activist and software
@@ -323,13 +332,13 @@
<dl>
<dt>You've often spoken against the use of the word
-“piracy”.</dt>
+“piracy.”</dt>
<dd>
<p>It's a smear term! They want to say that sharing is the moral
equivalent of attacking ships. I don't agree with that position, so I
-don't call sharing “piracy”. I call it
-“sharing”.</p>
+don't call sharing “piracy.” I call it
+“sharing.”</p>
<p>I am not against profit in general. I'm against mistreating people.
Any given way of doing business may or may not involve mistreating
@@ -535,7 +544,7 @@
<dl>
<dt>And by free of course, you don't just mean just
-“gratis”, you mean a lot more than that.</dt>
+“gratis,” you mean a lot more than that.</dt>
<dd>
<p>I mean “free” as in freedom.</p>
@@ -644,7 +653,7 @@
the users can't. They can only get a license to read the book under
Amazon's choice of conditions. Then there's the freedom to acquire the
book anonymously, which is basically impossible for most well-known
-books with the “Swindle”.</p>
+books with the “Swindle.”</p>
<p>They're only available from Amazon, and Amazon requires users to
identify themselves, as it doesn't allow any way to pay anonymously with
@@ -665,7 +674,7 @@
<dt>There was an Orwellian twist to the tale…</dt>
<dd>
-<p>Yes, because they deleted thousands of copies of “1984”.
+<p>Yes, because they deleted thousands of copies of “1984.”
That was in 2009. Those copies were authorized copies until the day
Amazon decided to delete them. After this, there was a lot of
criticism, and so Amazon promised it would never do this again unless
@@ -721,7 +730,7 @@
philosophy and avoid presenting the issue as a matter of justice versus
injustice.</p>
-<p>So that's the purpose of the term “open source”. It's to
+<p>So that's the purpose of the term “open source.” It's to
talk about more or less the same category of software but without
presenting it as an ethical issue. They don't say that if a program is
not open source then it's an injustice and you must try to escape from
@@ -999,17 +1008,19 @@
</dd>
</dl>
-<div class="column-limit"></div>
-<h3 style="font-size: 1.2em">Footnote</h3>
+<div class="infobox extra" role="complementary">
+<hr />
<ol>
<li id="f1">Theodoros Papatheodorou <<a
href="mailto:marinero@gmail.com";>marinero@gmail.com</a>> holds a PhD
in Computer Science, and is teaching at the Athens School of Fine Arts.</li>
</ol>
+</div>
+</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
@@ -1027,13 +1038,13 @@
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>
@@ -1054,7 +1065,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2012, 2019 Richard Stallman, Theodoros Papatheodorou</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2012 Richard Stallman, Theodoros Papatheodorou</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
@@ -1064,10 +1075,10 @@
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diff -u -b -r1.33 -r1.34
--- patent-reform-is-not-enough.html 23 Mar 2019 11:26:56 -0000 1.33
+++ patent-reform-is-not-enough.html 19 Sep 2021 15:41:10 -0000 1.34
@@ -1,12 +1,19 @@
<!--#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="esays laws patents" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>Patent Reform Is Not Enough - GNU Project - Free Software
Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/patent-reform-is-not-enough.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>Patent Reform Is Not Enough</h2>
+<div class="thin"></div>
<p>
When people first learn about the problem of software patents, their
@@ -100,13 +107,14 @@
There is a massive effort in Europe to stop software patents. Please
<!-- [Dead as of 2019-03-23] support <a
href="http://stopsoftwarepatents.eu/";>this
petition</a> for a Europe free of software patents, and --> see <a
-href="http://www.ffii.org";> the FFII web site</a> for full details of
+href="https://ffii.org/";> the FFII web site</a> for full details of
how you can help.</p>
+</div>
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+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
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@@ -124,18 +132,34 @@
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org";>
<web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p>
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+ <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of
our web pages, see <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
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Please see the <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
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+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
of this article.</p>
</div>
-<p>Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2008, 2019 Free Software
-Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
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+ 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 © 1996-1998, 2001 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
@@ -145,10 +169,10 @@
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retrieving revision 1.20
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -u -b -r1.20 -r1.21
--- pirate-party.html 12 Apr 2014 12:40:34 -0000 1.20
+++ pirate-party.html 19 Sep 2021 15:41:10 -0000 1.21
@@ -1,20 +1,28 @@
<!--#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 upholding action" -->
+<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>How the Swedish Pirate Party Platform Backfires on Free Software
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/pirate-party.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>How the Swedish Pirate Party Platform Backfires on Free Software</h2>
-<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></p>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/";>Richard
+Stallman</a></address>
-<blockquote>
+<div class="introduction">
<p>
Note: each Pirate Party has its own platform. They all call for
reducing copyright power, but the specifics vary. This issue may
not apply to the other parties' positions.
</p>
-</blockquote>
+</div>
<p>The bullying of the copyright industry in Sweden inspired the
launch of the first political party whose platform is to reduce
@@ -63,12 +71,12 @@
the bad, but not the good. The difference between source code and
object code and the practice of using EULAs would give proprietary
software an effective exception from the general rule of 5-year
-copyright — one that free software does not share.</p>
+copyright—one that free software does not share.</p>
<p>We also use copyright to partially deflect the danger of software
-patents. We cannot make our programs safe from them — no
+patents. We cannot make our programs safe from them—no
program is ever safe from software patents in a country which allows
-them — but at least we prevent them from being used to make the
+them—but at least we prevent them from being used to make the
program effectively nonfree. The Swedish Pirate Party proposes to
abolish software patents, and if that is done, this issue would go
away. But until that is achieved, we must not lose our only defense
@@ -109,10 +117,11 @@
may be other solutions that would also do the job. One way or
another, the Pirate Party of Sweden should avoid placing a handicap on
a movement to defend the public from marauding giants.</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
@@ -130,19 +139,19 @@
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
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-README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
of this article.</p>
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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
@@ -157,20 +166,20 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2009 Richard Stallman</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2009, 2012 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" -->
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-$Date: 2014/04/12 12:40:34 $
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+</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include -->
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retrieving revision 1.20
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--- public-domain-manifesto.html 1 Jul 2020 15:25:23 -0000 1.20
+++ public-domain-manifesto.html 19 Sep 2021 15:41:10 -0000 1.21
@@ -1,16 +1,24 @@
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-<!-- 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>Why I Will Not Sign the Public Domain Manifesto
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<link rel="canonical"
href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/public-domain-manifesto"; />
<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/public-domain-manifesto.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 I Will Not Sign the Public Domain Manifesto</h2>
-<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard M. Stallman</a></p>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/";>Richard
+Stallman</a></address>
-<p>The Public Domain Manifesto
-(<a
href="https://publicdomainmanifesto.org/manifesto/";>https://publicdomainmanifesto.org/manifesto/</a>)
+<p>The <a
+href="https://publicdomainmanifesto.org/manifesto/";>Public Domain Manifesto</a>
has its heart in the right place as it objects to some of the unjust
extensions of copyright power, so I wish I could support it. However,
it falls far short of what is needed.</p>
@@ -18,15 +26,16 @@
<p>Some flaws are at the level of implicit assumptions. The manifesto
frequently uses <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">propaganda
terms</a> of the copyright industry, such as
-<a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Protection">“copyright
-protection”</a>. These terms were chosen to lead people to
+“<a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Protection">copyright
+protection</a>.” These terms were chosen to lead people to
sympathize with the copyright industry and its demands for power.</p>
<p>The manifesto and its signatories use the term “intellectual
-property”, which confuses the issue of copyright by lumping it
+property,” which confuses the issue of copyright by lumping it
together with a dozen other laws that have nothing significant in
common.
-(See <a
href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html</a>
+(See “<a href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html">Did You Say
+‘Intellectual Property’? It's a Seductive Mirage</a>”
for more explanation about this point.) Ironically it uses the term
first in a sentence which points out that this manifesto is concerned
only with copyright law, not with those other laws. That is with good
@@ -37,10 +46,11 @@
<p>General Principle 2 repeats the common error that copyright should
balance the public interest with “protecting and rewarding the
-author”. This error interferes with proper judgment of any
+author.” This error interferes with proper judgment of any
copyright policy question, since that should be based on the public
-interest.
-<a
href="/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html</a>
+interest. “<a
+href="/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html">Misinterpreting
+Copyright—A Series of Errors</a>”
explains this error and how to avoid it.</p>
<p>It would be difficult to stand aside from a campaign for the right
@@ -69,8 +79,8 @@
calls for allowing “personal copying” of copyrighted
works. Since it omits the issue of the freedom to share copies of
published works with others, it fails to address the nastiest aspect
-of copyright: the
-vicious <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/war-on-sharing-riaa-lawsuits";>War
+of copyright: the vicious <a
+href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/war-on-sharing-riaa-lawsuits";>War
on Sharing</a> that the entertainment companies are now waging.</p>
<p>The demands and recommendations of the Public Domain Manifesto
@@ -86,12 +96,13 @@
<p>I ask the authors of the Public Domain Manifesto, and the public,
to please join me in demanding the freedom to noncommercially share
copies of all published works. Also please
-join <a href="http://defectivebydesign.org";>DefectiveByDesign.org</a>
+join <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org";>Defective by Design</a>
and help our fight against DRM wherever it may be found.</p>
+</div>
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-<div id="footer">
+<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
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<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
@@ -109,13 +120,13 @@
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
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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>
@@ -136,7 +147,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright © 2010, 2015, 2019, 2020 Richard Stallman</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2010 Richard Stallman</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/";>Creative
@@ -146,10 +157,10 @@
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-$Date: 2020/07/01 15:25:23 $
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--- rms-comment-longs-article.html 3 Aug 2019 14:55:12 -0000 1.22
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@@ -1,31 +1,34 @@
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+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 -->
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- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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<h2>Comments on Roderick Long's Article</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>
-<blockquote><p>
-Roderick Long's article can be found
-<a href="http://freenation.org/a/f31l1.html";>at this address</a>.
-</p></blockquote>
-
-<blockquote><p>
+<div class="introduction"><p>
The ideas of the free software movement are compatible with
-social-democratic (US liberal) views and with laissez-faire (US
-libertarian) views.
-</p></blockquote>
+social-democratic (US liberal) views and with laissez-faire (<a
+href="http://freenation.org/a/f31l1.html";>US libertarian</a>) views.
+</p></div>
<p>Free software is a matter of freedom. From our point of view,
-precisely which legal mechanism<sup><a href="#footnote">*</a></sup>
+precisely which legal mechanism<sup><a href="#ft2">[*]</a></sup>
is used to deny software users their
freedom is just an implementation detail. Whether it is done with
copyright, with contracts, or in some other way, it is wrong to deny
the public the freedoms necessary to form a community and cooperate.
-This is why it is inaccurate to understand the Free Software Movement
+This is why it is inaccurate to understand the free software movement
as specifically a matter of opposition to copyright on software. It
is both more and less than that.</p>
@@ -38,13 +41,17 @@
refutation. It shows that even if you adore property rights for
physical objects, you are not compelled to accept copyright.</p>
-<p><sup id="footnote">* = Or technical mechanism, such as withholding the
+<div class="infobox">
+<hr />
+<p id="ft2">[*] … or technical mechanism, such as withholding the
source code, or
-<a href="/philosophy/can-you-trust.html">tivoization</a>.</sup></p>
+<a href="/philosophy/can-you-trust.html">tivoization</a>.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
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@@ -62,13 +69,13 @@
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@@ -89,8 +96,7 @@
There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
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-Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 1996-2000, 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
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