Re: Updated draft of social contract changes
Hello Raul,
Very interesting proposal. Here are some grammatical corrections. I
have some other issues with this, but I'll will address those in another
mail.
Raul Miller wrote:
> Debian's Social Contract
>
> The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common
> cause to create a free operating system. This is the "social contract"
> we offer to the free software community.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "Social Contract" with the Free Software Community
>
> 1. Debian will remain 100% free software`
>
> never make the system depend on an item of non-free software.
Remove "an item of".
> 4. Our priorities are our users and free software
>
> works that are intended to be used on Debian systems, or attempt to
Change "or" to "nor", strike "attempt to"
> 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.
Entire sentence is redundant.
> 5. Programs that doesn't meet our free-software standards
Replace "doesn't" with "don't" or "do not"
> We
> support interoperability standards such as "Linux Standard Base", and
> will accept bug reports where our system violates those standards.
This sentence is misplaced. It should go in the previous clause
as it has nothing to do with non-free.
Hope this helps!
Joe
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