CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Karl Berry <karl> 11/04/27 23:19:19
Modified files:
philosophy : 15-years-of-free-software.html
gnu : gnu.html gnu-history.html
Added files:
gnu : about-gnu.html
Log message:
new general about-gnu page, consistency changes on other pages;
approved by rms
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.20&r2=1.21
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/gnu/gnu.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.47&r2=1.48
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/gnu/gnu-history.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.46&r2=1.47
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/gnu/about-gnu.html?cvsroot=www&rev=1.1
Patches:
Index: philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.html,v
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--- philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.html 17 Mar 2011 19:39:17 -0000
1.20
+++ philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.html 27 Apr 2011 23:19:11 -0000
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@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@
users would be free to redistribute the whole system, and free to
change and contribute to any part of it. The name of the system,
GNU, is a recursive acronym meaning “GNU's Not
- Unix”—a way of paying tribute to Unix, while at the same
+ Unix”—a way of paying tribute to the technical ideas of
+ Unix, while at the same
time saying that GNU is something different. Technically, GNU is
like Unix. But unlike Unix, GNU gives its users freedom.
</p>
@@ -112,7 +113,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2011/03/17 19:39:17 $
+$Date: 2011/04/27 23:19:11 $
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</p>
</div>
Index: gnu/gnu.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/gnu/gnu.html,v
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diff -u -b -r1.47 -r1.48
--- gnu/gnu.html 22 Mar 2011 01:20:41 -0000 1.47
+++ gnu/gnu.html 27 Apr 2011 23:19:16 -0000 1.48
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
<h2>The GNU Operating System</h2>
<ul>
- <li><a href="/gnu/gnu-history.html">An overview of GNU</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/gnu/about-gnu.html">About the GNU Operating System</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/gnu/gnu-history.html">A historical overview of GNU</a></li>
<li><a href="/gnu/thegnuproject.html">A more detailed history of GNU</a></li>
<li><a href="/gnu/initial-announcement.html">The initial announcement</a>
of the project</li>
@@ -83,7 +84,7 @@
<p>Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2011/03/22 01:20:41 $
+$Date: 2011/04/27 23:19:16 $
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</p>
</div>
Index: gnu/gnu-history.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/gnu/gnu-history.html,v
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diff -u -b -r1.46 -r1.47
--- gnu/gnu-history.html 6 Dec 2010 15:18:34 -0000 1.46
+++ gnu/gnu-history.html 27 Apr 2011 23:19:16 -0000 1.47
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html">laws such as the
patent system prohibit free software</a> entirely. The ultimate goal is
to provide free software to do all of the jobs computer users want to
-do—and thus make proprietary software obsolete.</p>
+do—and thus make proprietary software a thing of the past.</p>
</div>
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
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-$Date: 2010/12/06 15:18:34 $
+$Date: 2011/04/27 23:19:16 $
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</p>
</div>
Index: gnu/about-gnu.html
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RCS file: gnu/about-gnu.html
diff -N gnu/about-gnu.html
--- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ gnu/about-gnu.html 27 Apr 2011 23:19:16 -0000 1.1
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<title>About the GNU Operating System
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+
+<h2>About the GNU Operating System</h2>
+
+<p>[<a href="/gnu/gnu.html">Other historical and general articles about
+GNU.</a>]</p>
+
+<p>GNU was launched by Richard Stallman (rms) in 1983, as an
+operating system which would be put together by people working
+together for the freedom of all software users to control their
+computing. rms remains the Chief GNUisance today.</p>
+
+<p>The primary and continuing goal of GNU is to offer a Unix-compatible
+system that would be 100% <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free
+software</a>. Not 95% free, not 99.5%, but 100%. The name of the
+system, GNU, is a recursive acronym meaning GNU's Not Unix—a way
+of paying tribute to the technical ideas of Unix, while at the same time
+saying that GNU is something different. Technically, GNU is like Unix.
+But unlike Unix, GNU gives its users freedom.</p>
+
+<p><a href="/distros/free-distros.html">Completely free system
+distributions</a> (“distros”) meeting this goal are
+available today, many using the <a
+href="http://linux-libre.fsfla.org";>Linux-libre kernel</a> (the <a
+href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">relationship between GNU and the Linux
+kernel</a> is described more fully elsewhere). The <a
+href="/software/software.html">GNU packages</a> have been designed to
+work together so we could have a functioning GNU system. It has turned
+out that they also serve as a common “upstream” for many
+distros, so contributions to GNU packages help the free software
+community as a whole. Naturally, work on GNU is ongoing, with the goal
+to create a system that gives the greatest freedom to computer users.
+GNU packages include user-oriented applications, utilities, tools,
+libraries, even games—all the programs that an operating system
+can usefully offer to its users. <a href="/help/evaluation.html">New
+packages are welcome.</a> </p>
+
+<p>Thousands of people have joined in to make GNU the success it is
+today, and there are <a href="/help/help.html">many ways to
+contribute</a>, both technical and non-technical. GNU developers gather
+from time to time in <a href="/ghm/ghm.html">GNU Hackers Meetings</a>,
+sometimes as part of the larger free software community <a
+href="http://libreplanet.org/";>LibrePlanet</a> conferences.</p>
+
+<p>GNU has been supported in several ways by the <a
+href="http://www.fsf.org/";>Free Software Foundation</a>, the nonprofit
+organization also founded by rms to advocate free software ideals.
+Among other things, the FSF accepts copyright assignments and
+disclaimers, so it can act in court on behalf of GNU programs. (To be
+clear, contributing a program to GNU does <em>not</em> require
+transferring copyright to the FSF. If you do assign copyright, the FSF
+will enforce the GPL for the program if someone violates it; if you keep
+the copyright, enforcement will be up to you.)</p>
+
+<p>The ultimate goal is to provide free software to do all of the
+jobs computer users want to do—and thus make proprietary software
+a thing of the past.</p>
+
+<!-- If needed, change the copyright block at the bottom. In general,
+ all pages on the GNU web server should have the section about
+ verbatim copying. Please do NOT remove this without talking
+ with the webmasters first.
+ Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the document
+ and that it is like this: "2001, 2002", not this: "2001-2002". -->
+</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer">
+
+<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:g...@gnu.org";><g...@gnu.org></a>.
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
+the FSF.<br />
+Please send broken links and other corrections or suggestions to
+<a href="mailto:webmast...@gnu.org";><webmast...@gnu.org></a>.</p>
+
+<p>Please see the <a
+href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+of this article.</p>
+
+<p>Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+
+<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
+permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this
+notice, and the copyright notice, are preserved.</p>
+
+<p>Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2011/04/27 23:19:16 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<div id="translations">
+<h4>Translations of this page</h4>
+
+<!-- Please keep this list alphabetical by language code.
+ Comment what the language is for each type, i.e. de is German.
+ Write the language name in its own language (Deutsch) in the text.
+ If you add a new language here, please
+ advise web-translat...@gnu.org and add it to
+ - /home/www/html/server/standards/README.translations.html
+ - one of the lists under the section "Translations Underway"
+ - if there is a translation team, you also have to add an alias
+ to mail.gnu.org:/com/mailer/aliases
+ Please also check you have the language code right; see:
+ http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php
+ If the 2-letter ISO 639-1 code is not available,
+ use the 3-letter ISO 639-2.
+ Please use W3C normative character entities.
+
+ See also '(web-trans)Capitalization':
+
http://gnu.org/software/trans-coord/manual/web-trans/html_node/Capitalization.html
+ -->
+
+<ul class="translations-list">
+<!-- English -->
+<li><a href="/server/standards/boilerplate.html">English</a> [en]</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>
