On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:25:28 -0500 Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote: > 13) Clause 5 has been stricken entirely. *This amendment does NOT > mandate the removal of the non-free section from anything, > anywhere.* What it does do is withdraw our commitment to provide > a"non-free section" via a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) archive > specifically. This makes it possible for us to decide, in the > near or distant future, to stop distributing the non-free section > without violating our own Social Contract. I will second, subject to an amplification of 13). This change in language has no direct effect on either the removal of the non-free or contrib sections of our archives. Rationale: it is not clear that it makes sense to continue to distribute contrib, absent non-free -- alternatively it is not clear that a contrib made up largely of installer packages for non-free items is in the spirit of removing non-free packages. 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free We promise to preserve your right to freely use, modify, and distribute Debian operating system distributions. We include the guidelines we use to determine if a work is "free" in a document called the Debian Free Software Guidelines. Every work contained in our distributions will satisfy those guidelines. 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 write new components of the Debian system, we will license them as freely in a manner consistent with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We will make the best system we can, so that free software and other works will be widely distributed and used. We will communicate bug fixes, improvements, user requests, etc. to the "upstream" authors of software and other 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 users file online will promptly become visible to others without requiring manual approval. Project discussions will be held in forums open to public participation except where absolutely necessary. We are committed to transparency and accountability in our decision-making processes. 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 environment. We will not object to commercial software that is intended to run on Debian systems, and we will allow others to create value-added distributions containing both Debian and commercial software, without any fee from us. In furtherance of these goals, we will provide an integrated system of high-quality works of software and other materials with no legal restrictions that would prevent these uses of our operating system distributions. s/commercial/non-free/ or perhaps s/commercial/non-Debian/ Rationale: there is software which is non-DSFG free, but also non-commercial. And I could imagine a distribution that picked up some free software that was not officially Debian packaged, which should also be allowed. Seconded, with, or without these changes -- although I would clearly prefer both. Jim Penny > G. Branden Robinson | You don't just decide to > break Debian GNU/Linux | Kubrick's code of > silence and then branden@debian.org | get drawn > away from it to a http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | discussion > about cough medicine. >
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