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author | Manoj Srivastava <srivasta> | 2008-10-25 00:57:50 +0000 |
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committer | Manoj Srivastava <srivasta> | 2008-10-25 00:57:50 +0000 |
commit | 6f0c10630cd9e86dcf1c11d7fc6a9043a2f60a73 (patch) | |
tree | 298375bbd977905da6b5901b58e5a7f9c095b901 /english/social_contract.1.0.wml | |
parent | ce425c74540e86d776af3555a208d940ceb69a56 (diff) |
Remove duplicate entry for social_contract.wml. (social_contract.1.1.wml)
We have one historical version, social_contract.1.0.wml, and the
current version social_contract.wml.
CVS version numbers
english/social_contract.1.0.wml: 1.4 -> 1.5(DEAD)
Diffstat (limited to 'english/social_contract.1.0.wml')
-rw-r--r-- | english/social_contract.1.0.wml | 144 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 144 deletions
diff --git a/english/social_contract.1.0.wml b/english/social_contract.1.0.wml deleted file mode 100644 index e1362164c2c..00000000000 --- a/english/social_contract.1.0.wml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,144 +0,0 @@ -#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 Superseded by - 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">“The Open -Source Definition”</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> |