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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2007-02-03 00:37:38 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2007-02-03 00:37:38 +0000
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@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