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Re: Translation of manuals (was: SES manual French translation)
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Jean-Christophe Helary |
Subject: |
Re: Translation of manuals (was: SES manual French translation) |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Jan 2024 06:13:34 +0000 |
> On Jan 8, 2024, at 12:44, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
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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.
Thank you for the clarification.
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