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authorManoj Srivastava <srivasta>2008-10-25 01:04:40 +0000
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-#use wml::debian::template title="Debian Social Contract" BARETITLE=true
-
-# Original document: contract.html
-# Author : Manoj Srivastava ( srivasta@tiamat.datasync.com )
-# Created On : Wed Jul 2 12:47:56 1997
-
-<p>
- Version 1.1 ratified on April 26, 2004. Supersedes
- <a href="social_contract.1.0">Version 1.0</a> ratified on July 5, 1997.
-</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><q>Social Contract</q> with the Free Software Community</h2>
-
- <ol>
- <li>
- <strong>Debian will remain 100% free</strong>
- <p>
- We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if a work
- is "<em>free</em>" in the document entitled "<cite>The Debian Free
- Software Guidelines</cite>". We promise that the Debian system and
- all its components will be free according to these
- guidelines. We will support people who create or use both
- free and non-free works on Debian. We will never make the
- system require the use of a non-free component.
-
- </p>
- </li>
- <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 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 "<em>upstream</em>" authors of works
- included in our system.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li><strong>We will not hide problems</strong>
- <p>
- 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.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li><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
- 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.
- </p>
- </li>
- <li><strong>Works that do not meet our free software standards</strong>
- <p>
- We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of
- works that do not conform to the Debian Free Software
- Guidelines. We have created "<code>contrib</code>" and
- "<code>non-free</code>" areas in our archive for these
- works. The packages in these areas are not part of the
- Debian system, although they have been configured for use
- with Debian. We encourage CD manufacturers to read the
- licenses of the packages in these areas and determine if
- they can distribute the packages on their CDs. Thus,
- although non-free works are not a part of Debian, we support
- their use and provide infrastructure for non-free packages
- (such as our bug tracking system and mailing lists).
- </p>
- </li>
- </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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