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.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 84 deletions

diff --git a/etc/CENSORSHIP b/etc/CENSORSHIP
index 33da02ca100..a276331c576 100644
--- a/etc/CENSORSHIP
+++ b/etc/CENSORSHIP
@@ -1,87 +1,8 @@
-		Censoring my Software
-		   Richard Stallman
-			[From Datamation, 1 March 1996]
+Censoring my Software
 
+Note added March 2014:
 
-Last summer, a few clever legislators proposed a bill to "prohibit
-pornography" on the Internet.  Last fall, right-wing Christians made
-this cause their own.  Last week, President Clinton signed the bill,
-and we lost the freedom of the press for the public library of the
-future.  This week, I'm censoring GNU Emacs.
+This file is obsolete and will be removed in future.
+Please update any references to use
 
-No, GNU Emacs does not contain pornography.  It is a software package,
-an award-winning extensible and programmable text editor.  But the law
-that was passed applies to far more than pornography.  It prohibits
-"indecent" speech, which can include anything from famous poems, to
-masterpieces hanging in the Louvre, to advice about safe sex...to
-software.
-
-Naturally, there was a lot of opposition to this bill.  Not only from
-people who use the Internet, and people who appreciate erotica, but
-from everyone who cares about freedom of the press.
-
-But every time we tried to tell the public what was at stake, the
-forces of censorship responded with a lie: they told the public that
-the issue was simply pornography.  By embedding this lie as a
-presupposition in their statements about the issue, they succeeded in
-misinforming the public.  So here I am, censoring my software.
-
-You see, Emacs contains a version of the famous "doctor program",
-a.k.a. Eliza, originally developed by Professor Weizenbaum at MIT.
-This is the program that imitates a Rogerian psychotherapist.  The
-user talks to the program, and the program responds--by playing back
-the user's own statements, and by recognizing a long list of
-particular words.
-
-The Emacs doctor program was set up to recognize many common curse
-words, and respond with an appropriately cute message such as, "Would
-you please watch your tongue?" or "Let's not be vulgar."  In order to
-do this, it had to have a list of curse words.  That means the source
-code for the program was indecent.
-
-Because of the censorship law, I had to remove this feature.  (I
-replaced it with a message announcing that the program has been
-censored for your protection.)  The new version of the doctor doesn't
-recognize the indecent words.  If you curse at it, it curses right
-back to you--for lack of knowing better.
-
-Now that people are facing the threat of two years in prison for
-indecent network postings, it would be helpful if they could access
-precise rules via the Internet for how to avoid imprisonment.
-However, this is impossible.  The rules would have to mention the
-forbidden words, so posting them on the Internet would be against the
-rules.
-
-Of course, I'm making an assumption about just what "indecent" means.
-I have to do this, because nobody knows for sure.  The most obvious
-possible meaning is the meaning it has for television, so I'm using
-that as a tentative assumption.  However, there is a good chance that
-our courts will reject that interpretation of the law as
-unconstitutional.
-
-We can hope that the courts will recognize the Internet as a medium of
-publication like books and magazines.  If they do, they will entirely
-reject any law prohibiting "indecent" publications on the Internet.
-
-What really worries me is that the courts might take a muddled
-in-between escape route--by choosing another interpretation of
-"indecent", one that permits the doctor program or a statement of the
-decency rules, but prohibits some of the books that children can
-browse through in the public library and the bookstore.  Over the
-years, as the Internet replaces the public library and the bookstore,
-some of our freedom of the press will be lost.
-
-Just a few weeks ago, another country imposed censorship on the
-Internet.  That was China.  We don't think well of China in this
-country--its government doesn't respect basic freedoms.  But how well
-does our government respect them?  And do you care enough to preserve
-them here?
-
-If you care, stay in touch with the Voters Telecommunications Watch.
-Look in their Web site http://www.vtw.org/ for background information
-and political action recommendations.  Censorship won in February, but
-we can beat it in November.
-
-Copyright 1996 Richard Stallman
-Verbatim copying and distribution is permitted in any medium
-provided this notice is preserved.
+<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/censoring-emacs.html>