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-*- text -*-
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GNU Emacs availability information
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Copyright (C) 1986-1993, 1995, 1998, 2000-2024 Free Software Foundation,
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Inc.
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See the end of the file for license conditions.
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GNU Emacs is legally owned by the Free Software Foundation, but we
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regard the foundation more as its custodian on behalf of the public.
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In the GNU project, when we speak of "free software", this refers to
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liberty, not price. Specifically, it refers to the users' freedom to
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study, copy, change and improve the software. Sometimes users pay
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money for copies of GNU software, and sometimes they get copies at no
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charge. But regardless of how they got the software, or whether it
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was modified by anyone else along the way, they have the freedom to
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copy and change it--those freedoms are what "free software" means.
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The precise conditions for copying and modification are stated in the
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document "GNU General Public License," a copy of which is required to
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be distributed with every copy of GNU Emacs. It is usually in a file
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named 'COPYING' in the same directory as this file. These conditions
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are designed to make sure that everyone who has a copy of GNU Emacs
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(including modified versions) has the freedom to redistribute and
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change it.
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For information on how to get GNU software, see
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https://www.gnu.org/software/software.html. Printed copies of GNU
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manuals, including the Emacs manual, are available from the FSF's
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online store at https://shop.fsf.org.
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Emacs has been run on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and on many
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Unix systems, on a variety of types of CPU, as well as on MS-DOS,
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MS-Windows and macOS. See the file 'etc/MACHINES' in the Emacs
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distribution for a full list of machines that GNU Emacs has been tested
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on, with machine-specific installation notes and warnings.
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GNU Emacs is distributed with no warranty (see the General Public
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License for full details, in the file 'COPYING' in this directory (see
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above)), and neither I nor the Free Software Foundation promises any
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kind of support or assistance to users. The foundation keeps a list
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of people who are willing to offer support and assistance for hire.
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See https://www.gnu.org/help/gethelp.html.
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However, we plan to continue to improve GNU Emacs and keep it
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reliable, so please send us any complaints and suggestions you have.
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We will probably fix anything that we consider a malfunction. We may
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make improvements that are suggested, but we may choose not to.
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If you are on the Internet, report bugs to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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You can use the Emacs command M-x report-bug RET to mail a bug report.
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Please read the Bugs section of the Emacs manual before reporting bugs.
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General questions about the GNU Project can be asked of gnu@gnu.org.
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If you are a computer manufacturer, I encourage you to ship a copy of
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GNU Emacs with every computer you deliver. The same copying
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permission terms apply to computer manufacturers as to everyone else.
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You should consider making a donation to help support the GNU project;
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if you estimate what it would cost to distribute some commercial
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product and divide it by five, that is a good amount.
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If you like GNU Emacs, please express your satisfaction with a donation:
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send me (please email me about how) or the Foundation
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(https://my.fsf.org/donate) what you feel Emacs has been worth to you.
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If you are glad that I developed GNU Emacs and distribute it as free
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software, rather than following the obstructive and antisocial
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practices of proprietary software, you can reward me. If you would
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like the Foundation to do more to forward the cause of free software,
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you can contribute.
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Your donations will help to support the development of additional GNU
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software. GNU/Linux systems (variants of GNU, based on the kernel
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Linux) have millions of users, but there is still much to be done.
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For more information on GNU, visit https://www.gnu.org/.
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Richard M Stallman
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Chief GNUisance, Founder of the FSF
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This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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