On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:49:39PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > -----8<----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Paragraphs 1 to 4 of the social contract are replaced with the > following text: > > 1. Debian will remain 100% free > > We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if a work is "free" > in the document entitled "The Debian Free Software Guidelines". We > promise that the Debian system and all its components will be free > according to these guidelines. We will support people who create or > use both free and non-free works on Debian. We will never make the > system require the use of a non-free component. > > 2. We will give back to the free software community > > When we write new components of the Debian system, we will license > them in a manner consistent with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. > We will make the best system we can, so that free works will be widely > distributed and used. We will communicate things such as bug fixes, > improvements and user requests to the "upstream" authors of works > included in our system. > > 3. We will not hide problems > > We will keep our entire bug report database open for public view at > all times. Reports that people file online will promptly become visible > to others. > > 4. Our priorities are our users and free software > > We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free software > community. We will place their interests first in our priorities. We > will support the needs of our users for operation in many different > kinds of computing environments. We will not object to non-free works > that are intended to be used on Debian systems, or attempt to charge a > fee to people who create or use such works. We will allow others to > create distributions containing both the Debian system and other > works, without any fee from us. In furtherance of these goals, we will > provide an integrated system of high-quality materials with no legal > restrictions that would prevent such uses of the system. > > > If paragraph 5 is still present, it is replaced with the following > text: > > 5. Works that do not meet our free software standards > > We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of works that do > not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We have created > "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our archive for these works. The > packages in these areas are not part of the Debian system, although > they have been configured for use with Debian. We encourage CD > manufacturers to read the licenses of the packages in these areas and > determine if they can distribute the packages on their CDs. Thus, > although non-free works are not a part of Debian, we support their use > and provide infrastructure for non-free packages (such as our bug > tracking system and mailing lists). > > -----8<----------------------------------------------------------------- Seconded. -- G. Branden Robinson | I've made up my mind. Don't try to Debian GNU/Linux | confuse me with the facts. branden@debian.org | -- Indiana Senator Earl Landgrebe http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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