From 7c31790eb034e9460b7618af0a7543bb31598109 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikhail Klementev Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 12:09:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Remove back-cover Fixes #23 --- back-cover.txt | 39 --------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 39 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 back-cover.txt diff --git a/back-cover.txt b/back-cover.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 3d2409d..0000000 --- a/back-cover.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,39 +0,0 @@ -%% Copyright (c) 2002, 2010 Sam Williams -%% Copyright (c) 2010 Richard M. Stallman -%% Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -%% document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, -%% Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software -%% Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and -%% no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the -%% file called ``gfdl.tex''. - -In 2002, Sam Williams wrote Free as in Freedom, a biography of Richard -M. Stallman. In its epilogue, Williams expressed hope that choosing to -distribute his book under the GNU Free Documentation License would -enable and encourage others to share corrections and their own -perspectives through modifications to his work. - -Free as in Freedom (2.0) is Stallman's revision of the original -biography. While preserving Williams's viewpoint, it includes factual -corrections and extensive new commentary by Stallman, as well as new -prefaces by both authors written for the occasion. It is a rare kind -of biography, where the reader has the benefit of both the -biographer's original words and the subject's response. - -About the Author: - -Richard M. Stallman is an internationally recognized computer -programmer, political activist, and author. In 1983 he founded the -free software movement by launching the GNU Project. He coined the -term "copyleft" and is the main author of several copyleft licenses, -including the most widely used free software license, the GNU General -Public License. The GNU/Linux System (the GNU operating system with -the kernel Linux added) is today used on tens of millions of -computers. - -Stallman is the recipient of numerous awards, including the ACM Grace -Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic -Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, and the Takeda Award for Social -and Economic Well-Being. A collection of Stallman's essays, Free -Software, Free Society, is also available from GNU Press — -www.gnupress.org.