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NANTUCKET LIT PHLOG

VERSION 1.5 AND FREE SOFTWARE

NJB // 2021-04-22 // Lafayette, CO

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Version 1.5 of the Nantucket E-Books@tm@ software has been released. It
includes multitudinous bug fixes and cosmetic improvements, and some features
have been removed.

Among the new features are a home button in the menu for easier navigation, new
tutorials in the Arrowhead text editor, and syntax for highlighting,
underlining, and crossing-out text. 

I am also pleased to say that Nantucket E-Books@tm@ is now a free software
project. All client-side JavaScript on nantucketebooks.com has been released
under the GPL Version 3, while the Shanty markup language manual (./shantydocs)
and the FAQ page (./faq) have been released under the GNU Free Documentation
License.

One of my goals with Nantucket E-Books@tm@ was to make an e-book that respected
the reader's freedom. I accomplished part of that goal by creating e-books that
were DRM-free, and saved reader information to the reader's device, instead of
a server.

To make Nantucket E-Books@tm@ a fully free-software project, I consulted the
Free Software Foundation's guide to releasing JavaScript under a Free Software
license. All pages on the site that run JavaScript, including all e-books, have
a link to a new Software Licenses page, which provides a link to each script's
license, and a link to each script's source code. This makes the website
compliant with GNU LibreJS, a Mozilla browser plugin that tries to prevent
non-free JavaScript from running.

You may review the changes in 1.5 on the Nantucket E-Books@tm@ Versions
(./versions) page.


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