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2 | For an order form for all Emacs and FSF distributions deliverable from | |
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334c837d | 5 | GNU Emacs availability information, October 2000 |
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5b87ad55 | 7 | Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, |
114f9c96 | 8 | 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 |
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9 | Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
10 | See the end of the file for license conditions. | |
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13 | GNU Emacs is legally owned by the Free Software Foundation, but we | |
14 | regard the foundation more as its custodian on behalf of the public. | |
15 | ||
16 | In the GNU project, when we speak of "free software", this refers to | |
17 | liberty, not price. Specifically, it refers to the users' freedom to | |
18 | study, copy, change and improve the software. Sometimes users pay | |
19 | money for copies of GNU software, and sometimes they get copies at no | |
20 | charge. But regardless of how they got the software, or whether it | |
21 | was modified by anyone else along the way, they have the freedom to | |
22 | copy and change it--those freedoms are what "free software" means. | |
23 | ||
24 | The precise conditions for copying and modification are stated in the | |
25 | document "GNU General Public License," a copy of which is required to | |
26 | be distributed with every copy of GNU Emacs. It is usually in a file | |
27 | named `COPYING' in the same directory as this file. These conditions | |
28 | are designed to make sure that everyone who has a copy of GNU Emacs | |
29 | (including modified versions) has the freedom to redistribute and | |
30 | change it. | |
31 | ||
32 | If you do not know anyone to get a copy of GNU Emacs from, you can | |
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33 | order a cd-rom from the Free Software Foundation. We distribute |
34 | several Emacs versions. We also distribute nicely typeset copies of | |
35 | the Emacs user manual, Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, the Emacs | |
9f425ac2 | 36 | reference card, etc. See http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html. |
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38 | If you have Internet access, you can copy the latest Emacs | |
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39 | distribution from hosts, such as ftp.gnu.org. There are several ways |
40 | to do this; see http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html for more | |
41 | information. | |
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334c837d | 43 | Emacs has been run on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and on many |
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44 | Unix systems, on a variety of types of cpu, as well as on MSDOS, |
45 | Windows and MacOS. It also formerly worked on VMS and on Apollo | |
46 | computers, though with some deficiencies that reflect problems in | |
47 | these operating systems. See the file `MACHINES' in this directory | |
48 | (see above) for a full list of machines that GNU Emacs has been tested | |
49 | on, with machine-specific installation notes and warnings. | |
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51 | Note that there is significant variation between Unix systems | |
52 | supposedly running the same version of Unix; it is possible that what | |
53 | works in GNU Emacs for me does not work on your system due to such an | |
54 | incompatibility. Since I must avoid reading Unix source code, I | |
55 | cannot even guess what such problems may exist. | |
56 | ||
57 | GNU Emacs is distributed with no warranty (see the General Public | |
58 | License for full details, in the file `COPYING' in this directory (see | |
59 | above)), and neither I nor the Free Software Foundation promises any | |
60 | kind of support or assistance to users. The foundation keeps a list | |
61 | of people who are willing to offer support and assistance for hire. | |
334c837d | 62 | See http://www.gnu.org/help/gethelp.html. |
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64 | However, we plan to continue to improve GNU Emacs and keep it | |
65 | reliable, so please send me any complaints and suggestions you have. | |
66 | I will probably fix anything that I consider a malfunction. I may | |
67 | make improvements that are suggested, but I may choose not to. | |
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69 | If you are on the Internet, report bugs to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. You |
70 | can use the Emacs command M-x report-bug RET to mail a bug report. | |
71 | Please read the Bugs section of the Emacs manual before reporting | |
72 | bugs. | |
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334c837d | 74 | General questions about the GNU Project can be asked of gnu@gnu.org. |
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76 | If you are a computer manufacturer, I encourage you to ship a copy of | |
77 | GNU Emacs with every computer you deliver. The same copying | |
78 | permission terms apply to computer manufacturers as to everyone else. | |
79 | You should consider making a donation to help support the GNU project; | |
80 | if you estimate what it would cost to distribute some commercial | |
81 | product and divide it by five, that is a good amount. | |
82 | ||
83 | If you like GNU Emacs, please express your satisfaction with a | |
84 | donation: send me or the Foundation what you feel Emacs has been worth | |
85 | to you. If you are glad that I developed GNU Emacs and distribute it | |
261f4d7b | 86 | as free software, rather than following the obstructive and antisocial |
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87 | practices typical of software developers, reward me. If you would |
88 | like the Foundation to develop more free software, contribute. | |
89 | ||
90 | Your donations will help to support the development of additional GNU | |
91 | software. GNU/Linux systems (variants of GNU, based on the kernel | |
92 | Linux) have millions of users, but there is still much to be done. | |
93 | For more information on GNU, see the file `GNU' in this directory (see | |
94 | above). | |
95 | ||
96 | Richard M Stallman | |
97 | Chief GNUisance, | |
98 | President of the Free Software Foundation | |
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100 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. | |
101 | ||
ab73e885 | 102 | GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
5b87ad55 | 103 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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104 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
105 | (at your option) any later version. | |
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107 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
108 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
109 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
110 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
111 | ||
112 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
ab73e885 | 113 | along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |