I second this proposal. Hamish On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 08:40:14AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > [This is a repost -- Sven Luther has asked that that my call for seconds > is not in reply to any other post.] > > This is a call for seconds on the proposal I submitted on the 19th: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2004/debian-vote-200401/msg01453.html > > Many people have contributed to the wording of this proposal. I believe > this proposal is an improvement over the current Social Contract, and > I also believe it's better than the currently available alternatives. > > I don't participate much in other forums (such as IRC) -- if you think > this proposal is worth seconding, and it hasn't gotten enough sponsors > yet, please bring it to the attention of other people who you think might > want to sponsor it. The proposal needs five sponsors to be introduced. > A couple extra won't hurt, and might be a good precaution against errors. > > The rationale for this proposal is: clean up the social contract, make > it less ambiguous, and bring its words in line with the way we have > been interpreting it. This includes continuing our existing support > for non-free software. > > The social contract was originally written to address scepticism that > Debian would eventually turn into a commercial operation, and questions > about what exactly we were doing. I think it's done a pretty good job, > but there have been a few lingering questions based on ambiguous turns of > phrase in the text. Although it's impossible to eliminate all ambiguity > from a document of this nature, it is possible to address specific > concerns by looking at how we as a group have been interpreting the > contract, which is what I've tried to do here. > > This proposal is formally an amendment of Andrew Suffield's proposal > http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200312/msg00044.html > striking all text but "I propose the following resolution" and replacing > that text as follows: > > - -- > > I propose the following resolution: > > We will replace our social contract with two documents, as specified > by the recent constitutional amendment. The first replacement document > will be the social contract below, and the second replacement document > will be the Debian Free Software Guidelines extracted from the remainder > of the original social contract. > > Here's the replacement for the social contract: > > > 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 > > Debian exists to distribute a general purpose system composed of > entirely free software. As there are many definitions of free > software, we use the "Debian Free Software Guidelines" to determine > if software is free. We will also support our users who develop > and run other software on Debian -- free or non-free -- but we will > never make the system depend on 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 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. > > 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. > > 5. Software that doesn't meet our free-software standards > > We acknowledge that some, but not all, of our users require > the use of software which does not conform to the Debian Free > Software Guidelines. In order to accommodate these users, we have > created "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our internet archive. > The software in "non-free" satisfies some, but not all, of our > guidelines and we do not guarantee all software in the non-free > area may be distributed in other ways. For those who need to run > software we do not distribute, free or non-free, we support worthy > application binary interface standards and namespace management > standards. Additionally, we will work to find, package and support > free alternatives to non-free software so people who use only free > software can work with users of non-free software. > > - -- > Raul > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.3ia > Charset: noconv > > iQEVAwUBQA6CZPK/+Baey4gJAQGDEQf/fwVrq67oLpYcXk/9AeauwzHGsNDM73sO > bYQVHOuy2RMg24Ahpo8AspwNUFGKii+3KgZ87tziGiSG+duSCMWbRGor19gWcH8L > VCZoBlQ8oEbA1Bc82ocyIohnu5fnkVsg2CaCVsDK5Qd78vm4ly1HblFW4BO3RRDW > UDeF8XmgGar7ON/vF8om8Cs1IxQG1g+SdtMz5C//KyIs6Sj35cT84ab9eOCC8LVo > OU7BXs4mwZFKItFaUgetNcBIpHccLlH5pLvHqCimMnkAMaNg4gKWeHEdSC+7laBk > Owsx3lgA7CwLsnEPDbvqnFU2Yfg3hNzg8B9k2zwMP19PRml0GwJRbA== > =hh89 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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