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author | Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org> |
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date | Thu, 07 Dec 2000 13:21:55 +0000 |
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26119 | 1 -*- text -*- |
2 For an order form for all Emacs and FSF distributions deliverable from | |
3 the USA, see the file `ORDERS' in this directory (etc/ in the GNU | |
32809 | 4 Emacs distribution or http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html). For a |
26119 | 5 European order form, see `ORDERS.EUROPE'. For a Japan order form, |
6 see `ORDERS.JAPAN'. | |
7 | |
32809 | 8 GNU Emacs availability information, October 2000 |
9 Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2000 | |
26119 | 10 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
11 | |
12 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute | |
13 verbatim copies of this document provided that the | |
14 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved. | |
15 | |
16 GNU Emacs is legally owned by the Free Software Foundation, but we | |
17 regard the foundation more as its custodian on behalf of the public. | |
18 | |
19 In the GNU project, when we speak of "free software", this refers to | |
20 liberty, not price. Specifically, it refers to the users' freedom to | |
21 study, copy, change and improve the software. Sometimes users pay | |
22 money for copies of GNU software, and sometimes they get copies at no | |
23 charge. But regardless of how they got the software, or whether it | |
24 was modified by anyone else along the way, they have the freedom to | |
25 copy and change it--those freedoms are what "free software" means. | |
26 | |
27 The precise conditions for copying and modification are stated in the | |
28 document "GNU General Public License," a copy of which is required to | |
29 be distributed with every copy of GNU Emacs. It is usually in a file | |
30 named `COPYING' in the same directory as this file. These conditions | |
31 are designed to make sure that everyone who has a copy of GNU Emacs | |
32 (including modified versions) has the freedom to redistribute and | |
33 change it. | |
34 | |
35 If you do not know anyone to get a copy of GNU Emacs from, you can | |
32809 | 36 order a cd-rom from the Free Software Foundation. We distribute |
37 several Emacs versions. We also distribute nicely typeset copies of | |
38 the Emacs user manual, Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, the Emacs | |
39 reference card, etc. See file `ORDERS', or visit | |
40 http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html. | |
26119 | 41 |
42 If you have Internet access, you can copy the latest Emacs | |
32809 | 43 distribution from hosts, such as ftp.gnu.org. There are several ways |
44 to do this; see http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html for more | |
45 information. | |
26119 | 46 |
32809 | 47 Emacs has been run on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and on many |
48 Unix systems, on a variety of types of cpu. It also works on VMS and | |
49 on Apollo computers, though with some deficiencies that reflect | |
50 problems in these operating systems. See the file `MACHINES' in this | |
51 directory (see above) for a full list of machines that GNU Emacs has | |
52 been tested on, with machine-specific installation notes and warnings. | |
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53 There is also an MS-DOS version that works on MS-DOS and all platforms |
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54 that have some kind of ``DOS box'', and also an MS-Windows and a Mac |
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55 version. |
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57 Note that there is significant variation between Unix systems | |
58 supposedly running the same version of Unix; it is possible that what | |
59 works in GNU Emacs for me does not work on your system due to such an | |
60 incompatibility. Since I must avoid reading Unix source code, I | |
61 cannot even guess what such problems may exist. | |
62 | |
63 GNU Emacs is distributed with no warranty (see the General Public | |
64 License for full details, in the file `COPYING' in this directory (see | |
65 above)), and neither I nor the Free Software Foundation promises any | |
66 kind of support or assistance to users. The foundation keeps a list | |
67 of people who are willing to offer support and assistance for hire. | |
32809 | 68 See http://www.gnu.org/help/gethelp.html. |
26119 | 69 |
70 However, we plan to continue to improve GNU Emacs and keep it | |
71 reliable, so please send me any complaints and suggestions you have. | |
72 I will probably fix anything that I consider a malfunction. I may | |
73 make improvements that are suggested, but I may choose not to. | |
74 | |
32809 | 75 If you are on the Internet, report bugs to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. You |
76 can use the Emacs command M-x report-bug RET to mail a bug report. | |
77 Please read the Bugs section of the Emacs manual before reporting | |
78 bugs. | |
26119 | 79 |
32809 | 80 General questions about the GNU Project can be asked of gnu@gnu.org. |
26119 | 81 |
82 If you are a computer manufacturer, I encourage you to ship a copy of | |
83 GNU Emacs with every computer you deliver. The same copying | |
84 permission terms apply to computer manufacturers as to everyone else. | |
85 You should consider making a donation to help support the GNU project; | |
86 if you estimate what it would cost to distribute some commercial | |
87 product and divide it by five, that is a good amount. | |
88 | |
89 If you like GNU Emacs, please express your satisfaction with a | |
90 donation: send me or the Foundation what you feel Emacs has been worth | |
91 to you. If you are glad that I developed GNU Emacs and distribute it | |
92 as freeware, rather than following the obstructive and antisocial | |
93 practices typical of software developers, reward me. If you would | |
94 like the Foundation to develop more free software, contribute. | |
95 | |
96 Your donations will help to support the development of additional GNU | |
97 software. GNU/Linux systems (variants of GNU, based on the kernel | |
98 Linux) have millions of users, but there is still much to be done. | |
99 For more information on GNU, see the file `GNU' in this directory (see | |
100 above). | |
101 | |
102 Richard M Stallman | |
103 Chief GNUisance, | |
104 President of the Free Software Foundation |