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On Mi, 17 dec 14, 10:42:19, Tomas Nordin wrote:
> Hello Debian
> 
> I was browsing through the page http://www.debian.org/intro/free
> 
> and found room for editorial improvement. I would like to change the 
> underlined wordings in
> """
> Software that is free only in the sense that you don't need to pay to 
> use it is hardly free at all. You may be forbidden to pass it on, and 
> you are almost certainly prevented from improving it. Software 
> licensed at no cost is usually a weapon in a marketing campaign to 
> promote a related product or to drive a smaller competitor out of 
> business. There is no guarantee that it will stay free.
> """
> to
> "There is no guarantee that it will stay available at no cost"

This can be addressed also with this simple addition.


Index: english/intro/free.wml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/intro/free.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -r1.24 free.wml
--- english/intro/free.wml      8 Jun 2014 01:58:21 -0000       1.24
+++ english/intro/free.wml      18 Dec 2014 09:06:51 -0000
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 and you are almost certainly prevented from improving it.  Software
 licensed at no cost is usually a weapon in a marketing campaign to
 promote a related product or to drive a smaller competitor out of
-business.  There is no guarantee that it will stay free.
+business.  There is no guarantee that it will stay free of charge.
 
 <P>Truly free software is always free.  Software that is placed in the
 public domain can be snapped up and put into non-free programs. Any


If no objection from -www I can apply this patch at any time.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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