Re: Translation of manuals (was: SES manual French translation)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > We have infrastructure on non-free systems (github for one),

Just to help clear up a widespread confusion, the distinction between
free and nonfree is defined for software packages.  It is not defined
for services.  Since github is a service, not a software package, it
is misleading to describe it as "free" or "nonfree".

The reason behind this is that the moral issues of how a service
treats users are much more complex than those of how a software
package treats its users.  With a software package, if it is free,
users can collaborate to change itt in any way.  By contrast, it is
never possible for the users of a service to modify that service.

We know of various ways a service can treat users unjustly -- we call
them "dis-services".  But we don't have a complete list of them.

We do have a list of them specifically for repo sites.
See https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html
for evaluations of several.

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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