Re: Clarifications
Stephen Frost <sfrost@ns.snowman.net> writes:
> On 8 Jun 2000, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
>
> > The creators apparently did _not_ feel there was reason for
> > non-free to exist. In the Debian Manifesto Ian Murdock said that
> > Debian would be distributed by The Free Software Foundation. This
> > would effectively prevent a non-free section.
>
> Erm, uhm, so where did it come from? :) What about section 5 of
> the social contract?
The Debian Manifesto was published by Ian Murdock when he was
beginning to develop Debian. It predated the Social Contract by
several years. If the doc-debian package is installed it may be found
at /usr/share/doc/debian/debian-manifesto.
Bob
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