On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:49:39PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > Haven't had any further comments, so I guess we're good to go. This > proposal corrects various linguistic errors, and updates the language > of the social contract so that it better reflects reality and the > original intent. > -----8<----------------------------------------------------------------- > 2. We will give back to the free software community Nitpick: I believe Free Software should be capitalized here and in paragraph 4 below, as this is a reference to a named concept and not a mere juxtaposition of the English words. > When we write new components of the Debian system, we will license > them in a manner consistent with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. > We will make the best system we can, so that free works will be widely > distributed and used. We will communicate things such as bug fixes, > improvements and user requests 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 promptly become visible > to others. Nitpick: on-line, not online > 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. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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