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 coordinated by the <a href="//www.fsf.org">Free Software
 Foundation</a>, and you are welcome to contribute.</p>
 
+<p>Note that these services are referred to by their domain names,
+rather than their common names (eg: savannah.gnu.org vs. Savannah).
+That is because the underlying software, running on most of these
+servers, is also available for self-hosting as Free Software.
+This list focuses primarily on the ethics of the service operators,
+rather than the properties of the server software;
+so it is important to emphasize that these criteria were applied
+only to each specific instance, operated by a specific organization.
+Only one of these criteria (A1) relates to the server software.</p>
+
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