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diff --git a/doc/info/appx/free-software-needs-free-documentation.texinfo b/doc/info/appx/free-software-needs-free-documentation.texinfo index 7022d0a..8af6787 100644 --- a/doc/info/appx/free-software-needs-free-documentation.texinfo +++ b/doc/info/appx/free-software-needs-free-documentation.texinfo @@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ @indent @i{The following article was written by Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project.} +@* -@exdent +@noindent The biggest deficiency in the free software community today is not in the software—it is the lack of good free documentation that we can include with the free software. Many of our most important programs do not come with free reference manuals and free introductory texts. Documentation is an essential part of any software package; when an important free software package does not come with a free manual and a free tutorial, that is a major gap. We have many such gaps today. Consider Perl, for instance. The tutorial manuals that people normally use are non-free. How did this come about? Because the authors of those manuals published them with restrictive terms—no copying, no modification, source files not available—which exclude them from the free software world. |