X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fstandards.texi;h=55b6d1913777f56ca63da5a3bc8669121e76d2bc;hb=e062ed7a99ca4e88a93db19362800a3326a462ea;hp=d909067e6b3725618c7f0c1d7d077aa8be66d877;hpb=a8aa9b44e1ba65ac648b53ff2130506e084678a1;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/standards.texi b/doc/standards.texi index d909067e6..55b6d1913 100644 --- a/doc/standards.texi +++ b/doc/standards.texi @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ @setfilename standards.info @settitle GNU Coding Standards @c This date is automagically updated when you save this file: -@set lastupdate January 21, 2007 +@set lastupdate January 22, 2007 @c %**end of header @dircategory GNU organization @@ -4016,12 +4016,12 @@ the users of Foobar if the users of Foobar are few.) Sometimes a program is free software in itself but depends on a non-free platform in order to run. For instance, many Java programs depend on the parts of Sun's Java implementation which are not yet -freely available, and won't run on the GNU Java Compiler (which does -not yet have all the features) or won't run with the GNU Java -libraries. We hope this particular problem will be gone in a few -months, when Sun makes the standard Java libraries freely available, -but of course the general principle remains: you should not recommend -programs that depend on non-free software to run. +free software, and won't run on the GNU Java Compiler (which does not +yet have all the features) or won't run with the GNU Java libraries. +We hope this particular problem will be gone in a few months, when Sun +makes the standard Java libraries free software, but of course the +general principle remains: you should not recommend programs that +depend on non-free software to run. Some free programs encourage the use of non-free software. A typical example is @command{mplayer}. It is free software in itself, and the