From 2a800f7f4bc360f633770e62be42efd2025dfe89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ng0 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 19:51:27 +0000 Subject: documentation: philosophy: Apply some fixes from paper notes. --- doc/documentation/chapters/philosophy.texi | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/documentation/chapters/philosophy.texi b/doc/documentation/chapters/philosophy.texi index 116991a6a..be14b43c1 100644 --- a/doc/documentation/chapters/philosophy.texi +++ b/doc/documentation/chapters/philosophy.texi @@ -6,18 +6,19 @@ @c for secushare, showing some of the relations and functionalities @c of GNUnet. The foremost goal of the GNUnet project is to become a widely used, -reliable, open, non-discriminating, egalitarian, unfettered and +reliable, open, non-discriminating, egalitarian, unconstrained and censorship-resistant system of free information exchange. We value free speech above state secrets, law-enforcement or intellectual property. GNUnet is supposed to be an anarchistic network, where the only -limitation for peers is that they must contribute enough back to +limitation for participants (devices or people making use of the +network, ie peers) is that they must contribute enough back to the network such that their resource consumption does not have a significant impact on other users. GNUnet should be more than just another file-sharing network. The plan is to offer many other services and in particular to serve as a development platform for the next generation of -decentralized Internet protocols. +Internet Protocols. @menu * Design Goals:: @@ -40,13 +41,14 @@ These are the core GNUnet design goals, in order of relative importance: @c To footnote or not to footnote, that's the question. @footnote{This means that you you have the four essential freedoms: to run the program, to study and change the program in source code form, -to redistribute exact copies, and to distribute modified versions.} +to redistribute exact copies, and to distribute modified versions. +Refer to @uref{https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html, https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html}} @item GNUnet must only disclose the minimal amount of information necessary. -@item GNUnet must be decentralised and survive Byzantine failures in any +@item GNUnet must be distributed and survive Byzantine failures at any position in the network. -@item GNUnet must make it explicit to the user which entities must be -trustworthy when establishing secured communications. +@item GNUnet must make it explicit to the user which entities are +considered to be trustworthy when establishing secured communications. @item GNUnet must use compartmentalization to protect sensitive information. @item GNUnet must be open and permit new peers to join. -- cgit v1.2.3