On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:56:27PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > 1. Debian will remain 100% free > > > We promise to preserve your right to freely use, modify, and > > distribute the Debian system and all its components. We provide the > > This does not provide as strong a guarantee that Debian is > going to be entirely free. You can freely use, modify, and > distribute the Debian system and all its components, since we give > you a special license to do so (in violation of the DFSG, but hey, we > are no longer promising to adhere to the DFSG). So, you may use and > distribute it, but the people you distribute it to would have no > rights whatsoever. I played with a few ways to rewrite this. Here's my current favorite: 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 non-free works on Debian. We will never make the system require the use of a non-free component. The first two sentences are swapped, and the old first sentence is rewritten as a reference to the DFSG. I think that expresses it better than trying to explain what "free" means. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature