[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/GNU

[Richard M . Stallman]

Index: emacs/etc/GNU
diff -c emacs/etc/GNU:1.4 emacs/etc/GNU:1.5
*** emacs/etc/GNU:1.4   Sat May 14 14:12:36 2005
--- emacs/etc/GNU       Sat May 14 14:16:28 2005
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     The sale of teaching, hand-holding and maintenance services could
  also employ programmers.
  
!    People with new ideas could distribute programs as freeware, asking
  for donations from satisfied users, or selling hand-holding services.
  I have met people who are already working this way successfully.
  
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     The sale of teaching, hand-holding and maintenance services could
  also employ programmers.
  
!    People with new ideas could distribute programs as freeware(7), asking
  for donations from satisfied users, or selling hand-holding services.
  I have met people who are already working this way successfully.
  
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  clear is to to discuss patents, copyrights, and trademarks separately.
  See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml for more explanation
  of how this term spreads confusion and bias.
+ 
+    (7) In 1985 I had not yet recognize it is important to distinguish
+ clearly between "free software" and "freeware".  The term "freeware"
+ means you are free to redistribute the software--but not necessarily
+ free to study and change the source code.  So it is not the same as
+ free software.  See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html
+ for more explanation.