* doc/misc/info.texi (Create Info buffer): Mention info-display-manual.

[bpt/emacs.git] / etc / GNU

diff --git a/etc/GNU b/etc/GNU
index 489afb8..45f3646 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/GNU
+++ b/etc/GNU
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (C) 1985, 1993, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1985, 1993, 2001-2012  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
 of this document, in any medium, provided that the copyright notice and
@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ The GNU Manifesto
      Footnotes added in 1993 help clarify these points.
 
      For up-to-date information about the available GNU software,
-     please see the latest issue of the GNU's Bulletin.  The list is
-     much too long to include here.
+     please see www.gnu.org.  For software tasks to work on, see
+     http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tasklist.  For other ways
+     to contribute, see http://www.gnu.org/help.
 
 What's GNU?  Gnu's Not Unix!
 ============================
@@ -446,7 +447,7 @@ operating systems onto the new hardware.
    The sale of teaching, hand-holding and maintenance services could
 also employ programmers.
 
-   People with new ideas could distribute programs as freeware, asking
+   People with new ideas could distribute programs as freeware(7), asking
 for donations from satisfied users, or selling hand-holding services.
 I have met people who are already working this way successfully.
 
@@ -518,7 +519,7 @@ friends or over the net.  But it does suggest the wrong idea.
 
    (3)  Several such companies now exist.
 
-   (4)  The Free Software Foundation raisesd most of its funds for 10
+   (4)  The Free Software Foundation raised most of its funds for 10
 years from a distribution service, although it is a charity rather
 than a company.
 
@@ -531,6 +532,13 @@ biased; more subtle is the fact that it lumps together various
 disparate laws which raise very different issues.  Nowadays I urge
 people to reject the term "intellectual property" entirely, lest it
 lead others to suppose that those laws form one coherent issue.  The way to be
-clear is to to discuss patents, copyrights, and trademarks separately.
+clear is to discuss patents, copyrights, and trademarks separately.
 See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml for more explanation
 of how this term spreads confusion and bias.
+
+   (7) Subsequently we have learned to distinguish between "free
+software" and "freeware".  The term "freeware" means software you are
+free to redistribute, but usually you are not free to study and change
+the source code, so most of it is not free software.  See
+http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html for more
+explanation.