[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/DISTRIB [lexbind]

[Miles Bader]

Index: emacs/etc/DISTRIB
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+                                               -*- text -*-
+ For an order form for all Emacs and FSF distributions deliverable from
+ the USA, see http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html.
+ 
+          GNU Emacs availability information, October 2000
+ Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2000
+          Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ 
+       Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute
+       verbatim copies of this document provided that the
+       copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved.
+ 
+ GNU Emacs is legally owned by the Free Software Foundation, but we
+ regard the foundation more as its custodian on behalf of the public.
+ 
+ In the GNU project, when we speak of "free software", this refers to
+ liberty, not price.  Specifically, it refers to the users' freedom to
+ study, copy, change and improve the software.  Sometimes users pay
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+ copy and change it--those freedoms are what "free software" means.
+ 
+ The precise conditions for copying and modification are stated in the
+ document "GNU General Public License," a copy of which is required to
+ be distributed with every copy of GNU Emacs.  It is usually in a file
+ named `COPYING' in the same directory as this file.  These conditions
+ are designed to make sure that everyone who has a copy of GNU Emacs
+ (including modified versions) has the freedom to redistribute and
+ change it.
+ 
+ If you do not know anyone to get a copy of GNU Emacs from, you can
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+ 
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+ 
+ Emacs has been run on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and on many
+ Unix systems, on a variety of types of cpu, as well as on MSDOS,
+ Windows and MacOS.  It also formerly worked on VMS and on Apollo
+ computers, though with some deficiencies that reflect problems in
+ these operating systems.  See the file `MACHINES' in this directory
+ (see above) for a full list of machines that GNU Emacs has been tested
+ on, with machine-specific installation notes and warnings.
+ 
+ Note that there is significant variation between Unix systems
+ supposedly running the same version of Unix; it is possible that what
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+ cannot even guess what such problems may exist.
+ 
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+ above)), and neither I nor the Free Software Foundation promises any
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+ See http://www.gnu.org/help/gethelp.html.
+ 
+ However, we plan to continue to improve GNU Emacs and keep it
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+ I will probably fix anything that I consider a malfunction.  I may
+ make improvements that are suggested, but I may choose not to.
+ 
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+ 
+                       Richard M Stallman
+                       Chief GNUisance,
+                       President of the Free Software Foundation