Hi, I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as alternative to Andrews proposal: | 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software | | We promise to keep the Debian system and all its components entirely | free software. We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if | a work is "free" in the document entitled "The Debian Free Software | Guidelines" below. We will support our users who develop and run | non-free software on Debian, but we will never make the system depend | on an item of non-free software. | | 2. We Will Give Back To The Free Software Community | | When we create new components of the Debian system, we will license | them as free software. We will make the best system we can, so that | free works will be widely distributed and used. We will communicate | bug fixes, improvements, user requests, etc. 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 immediately 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. | | 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 (such as our bug tracking system and | mailing lists) for non-free packages. Changes to Andrews proposal: 1.: More or less the current SC, with the second sentence replaced with the first sentence of Andrews proposal and added the word "below" to it. 2.: More or less the current SC; only replaced the word "write" with "create". 3.: keep the word "immediately" instead of "promptly" (as this is, at least in my opinion, easier to understand for non-native speakers). 4.: Same as Andrews proposal 5.: Same as Andrews proposal, except that in the last sentence the words "for non-free packages" have been moved to the end to prevent the mis-interpretation that the BTS is not free. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C
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