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* Updating etc/DISTRIB
@ 2010-10-12  0:25 Glenn Morris
  2010-10-13  4:24 ` Richard Stallman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2010-10-12  0:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Richard Stallman; +Cc: emacs-devel


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Emacs; or would you prefer to keep it more as a form of historical
document?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.
! \f
! 	   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




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