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22dd677b | 2 | GNU Emacs availability information |
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4 | Copyright (C) 1986-1993, 1995, 1998, 2000-2013 Free Software Foundation, |
5 | Inc. | |
5b87ad55 | 6 | See the end of the file for license conditions. |
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9 | GNU Emacs is legally owned by the Free Software Foundation, but we | |
10 | regard the foundation more as its custodian on behalf of the public. | |
11 | ||
12 | In the GNU project, when we speak of "free software", this refers to | |
13 | liberty, not price. Specifically, it refers to the users' freedom to | |
14 | study, copy, change and improve the software. Sometimes users pay | |
15 | money for copies of GNU software, and sometimes they get copies at no | |
16 | charge. But regardless of how they got the software, or whether it | |
17 | was modified by anyone else along the way, they have the freedom to | |
18 | copy and change it--those freedoms are what "free software" means. | |
19 | ||
20 | The precise conditions for copying and modification are stated in the | |
21 | document "GNU General Public License," a copy of which is required to | |
22 | be distributed with every copy of GNU Emacs. It is usually in a file | |
23 | named `COPYING' in the same directory as this file. These conditions | |
24 | are designed to make sure that everyone who has a copy of GNU Emacs | |
25 | (including modified versions) has the freedom to redistribute and | |
26 | change it. | |
27 | ||
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28 | For information on how to get GNU software, see |
29 | http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html. Printed copies of GNU | |
30 | manuals, including the Emacs manual, are available from the FSF's | |
31 | online store at http://shop.fsf.org. | |
1bac2ebb | 32 | |
334c837d | 33 | Emacs has been run on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and on many |
9f425ac2 | 34 | Unix systems, on a variety of types of cpu, as well as on MSDOS, |
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35 | Windows and MacOS. See the file `etc/MACHINES' in the Emacs |
36 | distribution for a full list of machines that GNU Emacs has been tested | |
9f425ac2 | 37 | on, with machine-specific installation notes and warnings. |
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39 | GNU Emacs is distributed with no warranty (see the General Public |
40 | License for full details, in the file `COPYING' in this directory (see | |
41 | above)), and neither I nor the Free Software Foundation promises any | |
42 | kind of support or assistance to users. The foundation keeps a list | |
43 | of people who are willing to offer support and assistance for hire. | |
334c837d | 44 | See http://www.gnu.org/help/gethelp.html. |
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45 | |
46 | However, we plan to continue to improve GNU Emacs and keep it | |
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47 | reliable, so please send us any complaints and suggestions you have. |
48 | We will probably fix anything that we consider a malfunction. We may | |
49 | make improvements that are suggested, but we may choose not to. | |
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51 | If you are on the Internet, report bugs to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. |
52 | You can use the Emacs command M-x report-bug RET to mail a bug report. | |
53 | Please read the Bugs section of the Emacs manual before reporting bugs. | |
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334c837d | 55 | General questions about the GNU Project can be asked of gnu@gnu.org. |
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57 | If you are a computer manufacturer, I encourage you to ship a copy of | |
58 | GNU Emacs with every computer you deliver. The same copying | |
59 | permission terms apply to computer manufacturers as to everyone else. | |
60 | You should consider making a donation to help support the GNU project; | |
61 | if you estimate what it would cost to distribute some commercial | |
62 | product and divide it by five, that is a good amount. | |
63 | ||
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64 | If you like GNU Emacs, please express your satisfaction with a donation: |
65 | send me (please email me about how) or the Foundation | |
66 | (https://my.fsf.org/donate) what you feel Emacs has been worth to you. | |
67 | If you are glad that I developed GNU Emacs and distribute it as free | |
68 | software, rather than following the obstructive and antisocial | |
69 | practices of proprietary software, you can reward me. If you would | |
70 | like the Foundation to do more to forward the cause of free software, | |
71 | you can contribute. | |
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73 | Your donations will help to support the development of additional GNU | |
74 | software. GNU/Linux systems (variants of GNU, based on the kernel | |
75 | Linux) have millions of users, but there is still much to be done. | |
76 | For more information on GNU, see the file `GNU' in this directory (see | |
77 | above). | |
78 | ||
79 | Richard M Stallman | |
80 | Chief GNUisance, | |
81 | President of the Free Software Foundation | |
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82 | \f |
83 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. | |
84 | ||
ab73e885 | 85 | GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
5b87ad55 | 86 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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87 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
88 | (at your option) any later version. | |
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90 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
91 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
92 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
93 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
94 | ||
95 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
ab73e885 | 96 | along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |