emacs/etc/WHY-FREE

Why Software Should Not Have Owners

Note added March 2014:

This file is obsolete and will be removed in future.
Please update any references to use

<https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html>
Make some files in etc obsolete These are old copies of online information that is not Emacs-specific. * etc/CENSORSHIP, etc/GNU, etc/LINUX-GNU, etc/THE-GNU-PROJECT, etc/WHY-FREE: Replace contents with pointers to www.gnu.org or emacs.info, mark obsolete. * src/callproc.c (init_callproc): In etc, look for NEWS rather than GNU. * lisp/startup.el (fancy-startup-text): * lisp/help.el (describe-gnu-project): Visit online info about GNU project. * doc/emacs/help.texi (Help Files): Update C-h g description. * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Informational files for Emacs): Do not mention etc/GNU. * admin/notes/copyright: Remove references to these files. * etc/MACHINES, etc/NEWS.19: Replace references to these files. 2014-03-22 23:47:20 +00:00			`Why Software Should Not Have Owners`
# 1999-10-03 12:39:42 +00:00
Make some files in etc obsolete These are old copies of online information that is not Emacs-specific. * etc/CENSORSHIP, etc/GNU, etc/LINUX-GNU, etc/THE-GNU-PROJECT, etc/WHY-FREE: Replace contents with pointers to www.gnu.org or emacs.info, mark obsolete. * src/callproc.c (init_callproc): In etc, look for NEWS rather than GNU. * lisp/startup.el (fancy-startup-text): * lisp/help.el (describe-gnu-project): Visit online info about GNU project. * doc/emacs/help.texi (Help Files): Update C-h g description. * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Informational files for Emacs): Do not mention etc/GNU. * admin/notes/copyright: Remove references to these files. * etc/MACHINES, etc/NEWS.19: Replace references to these files. 2014-03-22 23:47:20 +00:00			`Note added March 2014:`
# 1999-10-03 12:39:42 +00:00
Make some files in etc obsolete These are old copies of online information that is not Emacs-specific. * etc/CENSORSHIP, etc/GNU, etc/LINUX-GNU, etc/THE-GNU-PROJECT, etc/WHY-FREE: Replace contents with pointers to www.gnu.org or emacs.info, mark obsolete. * src/callproc.c (init_callproc): In etc, look for NEWS rather than GNU. * lisp/startup.el (fancy-startup-text): * lisp/help.el (describe-gnu-project): Visit online info about GNU project. * doc/emacs/help.texi (Help Files): Update C-h g description. * doc/misc/efaq.texi (Informational files for Emacs): Do not mention etc/GNU. * admin/notes/copyright: Remove references to these files. * etc/MACHINES, etc/NEWS.19: Replace references to these files. 2014-03-22 23:47:20 +00:00			`This file is obsolete and will be removed in future.`
			`Please update any references to use`
# 1999-10-03 12:39:42 +00:00
Prefer HTTPS to FTP and HTTP in documentation Most of this change is to boilerplate commentary such as license URLs. This change was prompted by ftp://ftp.gnu.org's going-away party, planned for November. Change these FTP URLs to https://ftp.gnu.org instead. Make similar changes for URLs to other organizations moving away from FTP. Also, change HTTP to HTTPS for URLs to gnu.org and fsf.org when this works, as this will further help defend against man-in-the-middle attacks (for this part I omitted the MS-DOS and MS-Windows sources and the test tarballs to keep the workload down). HTTPS is not fully working to lists.gnu.org so I left those URLs alone for now. 2017-09-13 22:52:52 +00:00			`<https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html>`