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From: |
Therese Godefroy |
Subject: |
www/gnu thegnuproject.html |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Oct 2021 09:12:55 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 21/10/28 09:12:55
Modified files:
gnu : thegnuproject.html
Log message:
Footnote refs: consistently within the sentence,
smaller font size so they don't look bigger than the text;
restore article/reduced-width div for reading comfort.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/gnu/thegnuproject.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.99&r2=1.100
Patches:
Index: thegnuproject.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/gnu/thegnuproject.html,v
retrieving revision 1.99
retrieving revision 1.100
diff -u -b -r1.99 -r1.100
--- thegnuproject.html 25 Oct 2021 07:18:31 -0000 1.99
+++ thegnuproject.html 28 Oct 2021 13:12:55 -0000 1.100
@@ -5,12 +5,16 @@
<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" -->
<title>About the GNU Project
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<style type="text/css" media="print,screen"><!--
+a[href*='#ft'] { font-size: .94em; }
+--></style>
<meta http-equiv="Keywords" content="GNU, GNU Project, FSF, Free Software,
Free Software Foundation, History" />
<!--#include virtual="/gnu/po/thegnuproject.translist" -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
<!--#include virtual="/gnu/gnu-breadcrumb.html" -->
<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE-->
<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" -->
+<div class="article reduced-width">
<h2>The GNU Project</h2>
<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/">Richard
@@ -407,7 +411,7 @@
have other kinds of copyleft that are used in specific circumstances.
GNU manuals are copylefted also, but use a much simpler kind of
copyleft, because the complexity of the GNU GPL is not necessary
-for manuals. <a href="#ft4">[4]</a></p>
+for manuals <a href="#ft4">[4]</a>.</p>
<h3>The Free Software Foundation</h3>
@@ -739,8 +743,7 @@
strong feeling that free software is a matter of principle, and
nonfree drivers are intolerable. And will large numbers of us spend
extra money, or even a little extra time, so we can use free drivers?
-Yes, if the determination to have freedom is widespread. <a
href="#ft8">[8]</a></p>
-
+Yes, if the determination to have freedom is widespread <a
href="#ft8">[8]</a>.</p>
<h3>Nonfree libraries</h3>
<p>
@@ -796,7 +799,7 @@
way to be sure, but I think that this was partly due to the
community's firm response to the problem that Qt posed when it was
nonfree. (The new license is inconvenient and inequitable, so it
-remains desirable to avoid using Qt. <a href="#ft9">[9]</a>)</p>
+remains desirable to avoid using Qt <a href="#ft9">[9]</a>.)</p>
<p>
How will we respond to the next tempting nonfree library? Will the
whole community understand the need to stay out of the trap? Or will
@@ -809,10 +812,10 @@
algorithms and features off limits to free software for up to twenty
years. The LZW compression algorithm patents were applied for in
1983, and we still cannot release free software to produce proper
-compressed <abbr title="Graphics Interchange Format">GIF</abbr>s. <a
href="#ft10">[10]</a>
+compressed <abbr title="Graphics Interchange Format">GIF</abbr> <a
href="#ft10">[10]</a>.
In 1998, a free program to produce
<abbr title="MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3">MP3</abbr> compressed audio
-was removed from distribution under threat of a patent suit. <a
href="#ft11">[11]</a>
+was removed from distribution under threat of a patent suit <a
href="#ft11">[11]</a>.
</p>
<p>
There are ways to cope with patents: we can search for evidence that a
@@ -1025,6 +1028,7 @@
be entirely absent from that book.
</p>
</div>
+</div>
</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
@@ -1084,7 +1088,7 @@
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/10/25 07:18:31 $
+$Date: 2021/10/28 13:12:55 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>