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Updating etc/DISTRIB
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
Updating etc/DISTRIB |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:25:55 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
I was wondering if it is OK if I make some updates to etc/DISTRIB in
Emacs; or would you prefer to keep it more as a form of historical
document?
Example patch follows. May I also change the paragraph "However, we
plan to continue..." to use the first person plural throughout?
*** etc/DISTRIB 2010-01-13 08:35:10 +0000
--- etc/DISTRIB 2010-10-12 00:02:35 +0000
***************
*** 1,12 ****
-*- 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, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
! Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
--- 1,9 ----
-*- text -*-
! GNU Emacs availability information
Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995,
! 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,
! 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
***************
*** 29,59 ****
(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
! order a cd-rom from the Free Software Foundation. We distribute
! several Emacs versions. We also distribute nicely typeset copies of
! the Emacs user manual, Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, the Emacs
! reference card, etc. See http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html.
!
! If you have Internet access, you can copy the latest Emacs
! distribution from hosts, such as ftp.gnu.org. There are several ways
! to do this; see http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html for more
! information.
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
- works in GNU Emacs for me does not work on your system due to such an
- incompatibility. Since I must avoid reading Unix source code, I
- cannot even guess what such problems may exist.
-
GNU Emacs is distributed with no warranty (see the General Public
License for full details, in the file `COPYING' in this directory (see
above)), and neither I nor the Free Software Foundation promises any
--- 26,42 ----
(including modified versions) has the freedom to redistribute and
change it.
! For information on how to get GNU software, see
! http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html. Printed copies of GNU
! manuals, including the Emacs manual, are available from the FSF's
! online store at http://shop.fsf.org.
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. See the file `etc/MACHINES' in the Emacs
! distribution for a full list of machines that GNU Emacs has been tested
on, with machine-specific installation notes and warnings.
GNU Emacs is distributed with no warranty (see the General Public
License for full details, in the file `COPYING' in this directory (see
above)), and neither I nor the Free Software Foundation promises any
***************
*** 81,91 ****
product and divide it by five, that is a good amount.
If you like GNU Emacs, please express your satisfaction with a
! donation: send me or the Foundation what you feel Emacs has been worth
! to you. If you are glad that I developed GNU Emacs and distribute it
! as free software, rather than following the obstructive and antisocial
! practices typical of software developers, reward me. If you would
! like the Foundation to develop more free software, contribute.
Your donations will help to support the development of additional GNU
software. GNU/Linux systems (variants of GNU, based on the kernel
--- 64,74 ----
product and divide it by five, that is a good amount.
If you like GNU Emacs, please express your satisfaction with a
! donation via https://my.fsf.org/donate. Donate what you feel Emacs
! has been worth to you. If you are glad that I developed GNU Emacs and
! distribute it as free software, rather than following the obstructive
! and antisocial practices typical of software developers, reward me.
! If you would like the Foundation to develop more free software, contribute.
Your donations will help to support the development of additional GNU
software. GNU/Linux systems (variants of GNU, based on the kernel
- Updating etc/DISTRIB,
Glenn Morris <=