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+#!wml -o ../../debian.org/%BASE.html.en
+#use wml::debian::template title="Debian GNU/Linux — A Social Contract"
+
+  <!--                             -*- Mode: Sgml -*- 
+  contract.html  
+  Author           : Manoj Srivastava ( srivasta@tiamat.datasync.com ) 
+  Created On       : Wed Jul  2 12:47:56 1997
+  Created On Node  : tiamat.datasync.com
+  Last Modified By : Manoj Srivastava
+  Last Modified On : Wed Jul  2 13:35:07 1997
+  Last Machine Used: tiamat.datasync.com
+  Update Count     : 21
+  Status           : Unknown, Use with caution!
+  HISTORY          : 
+  Description      : 
+  $Id$
+  -->
+
+<H1>Debian Social Contract</H1>
+
+<P>We are Software In The Public Interest, producers of the Debian GNU/Linux
+system. This is the &ldquo;<strong>social contract</strong>&rdquo; we offer
+to the free software community.
+
+<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><a name="guidelines">The Debian Free Software Guidelines</a></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 to not
+       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://language.perl.com/misc/Artistic.html">Artistic</a></strong>"
+     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 &ldquo;The Open
+   Source Definition&rdquo;.</EM>
+
+    <HR>
+    <P>Back to the <A href="$(HOME)/">Debian GNU/Linux homepage</A>.
+
+<:= languages ("$(HOME)", ".", "$(WML_SRC_BASENAME)", "$(CUR_LANG)") :>