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| author | Josip Rodin <joy> | 2003-06-08 13:40:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Josip Rodin <joy> | 2003-06-08 13:40:51 +0000 |
| commit | 0554a301620b50ce87233c9a882533fd3d5704a1 (patch) | |
| tree | 2e4782f57cf876038a1e784e7996748efe99f28a /english/social_contract.wml | |
| parent | 0a1edfcbc664f65f9b282eade9a55c0e3c40c163 (diff) | |
amended the historic footnote, prompted by Ean Schuessler
CVS version numbers
english/social_contract.wml: 1.11 -> 1.12
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| -rw-r--r-- | english/social_contract.wml | 17 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/english/social_contract.wml b/english/social_contract.wml index 48466258085..fc53cabb375 100644 --- a/english/social_contract.wml +++ b/english/social_contract.wml @@ -123,12 +123,17 @@ the free software community as the basis of the licenses are examples of licenses that we consider "<em>free</em>". </OL> -<P><EM>Bruce Perens wrote the first draft of this document -and refined it using the comments of the Debian developers -during a month-long e-mail conference in June 1997. He -later removed the Debian-specific references from the -Debian Free Software Guidelines to create “The Open -Source Definition”.</EM> +<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> |