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authorManoj Srivastava <srivasta>2008-10-25 00:57:50 +0000
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-#use wml::debian::template title="Debian Social Contract, Version 1.0" BARETITLE=true
-
-# Original document: contract.html
-# Author : Manoj Srivastava ( srivasta@tiamat.datasync.com )
-# Created On : Wed Jul 2 12:47:56 1997
-
-<p>
- Version 1.0 ratified on July 5, 1997. Superseded by
- <a href="social_contract">Version 1.1</a>, ratified on April 26, 2004.
-</p>
-
-<p>Debian, the producers of the Debian GNU/Linux system, have created the
-<strong>Debian Social Contract</strong>. The <a href="#guidelines">Debian Free Software
-Guidelines (DFSG)</a> part of the contract, initially designed
-as a set of commitments that we agree to abide by, has been adopted by
-the free software community as the basis of the
-<a href="http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd">Open Source Definition</a>.
-
-<HR>
-<h2>"Social Contract" with the Free Software Community</h2>
-<ol>
- <li><p><strong>Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software</strong>
- <p>We promise to keep the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution
- entirely free software. As there are many definitions of
- free software, we include the guidelines we use to determine
- if software is "<em>free</em>" below. 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.</p>
- <li><strong>We Will Give Back to the Free Software Community</strong>
- <p>When we write new components of the Debian system, we will
- license them as free software. We will make the best system
- we can, so that free software will be widely distributed and
- used. We will feed back bug-fixes, improvements, user
- requests, etc. to the "<em>upstream</em>" authors of software
- included in our system.</p>
- <li><p><strong>We Won't Hide Problems</strong>
- <p>We will keep our entire bug-report database open for public
- view at all times. Reports that users file on-line will
- immediately become visible to others.</p>
- <li><p><strong>Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software</strong>
- <p>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 won't object to commercial software that is
- intended to run on Debian systems, and we'll allow others to
- create value-added distributions containing both Debian and
- commercial software, without any fee from us. To support
- these goals, we will provide an integrated system of
- high-quality, 100% free software, with no legal restrictions
- that would prevent these kinds of use.</p>
- <li><p><strong>Programs That Don't Meet Our Free-Software Standards</strong>
- <p>We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of
- programs that don't conform to the
- <a href="#guidelines">Debian Free Software Guidelines</a>.
- We have created "<tt>contrib</tt>" and "<tt>non-free</tt>"
- areas in our FTP archive for this software. The software in
- these directories is not part of the Debian system, although
- it has been configured for use with Debian. We encourage CD
- manufacturers to read the licenses of software packages in
- these directories and determine if they can distribute that
- software on their CDs. Thus, although non-free software
- isn't a part of Debian, we support its use, and we provide
- infrastructure (such as our bug-tracking system and mailing
- lists) for non-free software packages.
-</ol>
-<HR>
-<h2 id="guidelines">The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)</h2>
-<ol>
- <li><p><strong>Free Redistribution</strong>
- <p>The license of a Debian component may not restrict any
- party from selling or giving away the software as a
- component of an aggregate software distribution containing
- programs from several different sources. The license may not
- require a royalty or other fee for such sale.</p>
- <li><p><strong>Source Code</strong>
- <p>The program must include source code, and must allow
- distribution in source code as well as compiled
- form.</p>
- <li><p><strong>Derived Works</strong>
- <p>The license must allow modifications and derived works, and
- must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as
- the license of the original software.</p>
- <li><p><strong>Integrity of The Author's Source Code</strong>
- <p>The license may restrict source-code from being distributed
- in modified form _<strong>only</strong>_ if the license allows
- the distribution of "<tt>patch files</tt>" with the source
- code for the purpose of modifying the program at build
- time. The license must explicitly permit distribution of
- software built from modified source code. The license may
- require derived works to carry a different name or version
- number from the original software. (<em>This is a
- compromise. The Debian group encourages all authors not to
- restrict any files, source or binary, from being
- modified.</em>)</p>
- <li><p><strong>No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups</strong>
- <p>The license must not discriminate against any person or
- group of persons.</p>
- <li><p><strong>No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor</strong>
- <p>The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the
- program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may
- not restrict the program from being used in a business, or
- from being used for genetic research.</p>
- <li><p><strong>Distribution of License</strong>
- <p>The rights attached to the program must apply to all to
- whom the program is redistributed without the need for
- execution of an additional license by those
- parties.</p>
- <li><p><strong>License Must Not Be Specific to Debian</strong>
- <p>The rights attached to the program must not depend on the
- program's being part of a Debian system. If the program is
- extracted from Debian and used or distributed without Debian
- but otherwise within the terms of the program's license, all
- parties to whom the program is redistributed should have the
- same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with
- the Debian system.</p>
- <li><p><strong>License Must Not Contaminate Other Software</strong>
- <p>The license must not place restrictions on other software
- that is distributed along with the licensed
- software. For example, the license must not insist that all
- other programs distributed on the same medium must be free
- software.</p>
- <li><p><strong>Example Licenses</strong>
- <p>The "<strong><a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GPL</a></strong>",
- "<strong><a href="misc/bsd.license">BSD</a></strong>", and
- "<strong><a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/a/language/misc/Artistic.html">Artistic</a></strong>"
- licenses are examples of licenses that we consider "<em>free</em>".
-</ol>
-
-<p><em>The concept of stating our "social contract with the free
-software community" was suggested by Ean Schuessler. This document
-was drafted by Bruce Perens, refined by the other Debian developers
-during a month-long e-mail conference in June 1997, and then
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/debian-announce-1997/msg00017.html">\
-accepted</a> as the publicly stated policy of the Debian Project.</em></p>
-
-<p><em>Bruce Perens later removed the Debian-specific references from the
-Debian Free Software Guidelines to create
-<a href="http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php">&ldquo;The Open
-Source Definition&rdquo;</a>.</em></p>
-
-<p><em>Other organizations may derive from and build on this document.
-Please give credit to the Debian project if you do.</em>

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