-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 | |I propose the following resolution: | |We will replace our social contract with two documents, as specified |by the recent constitutional amendment. The first replacement document |will be the social contract below, and the second replacement document |will be the Debian Free Software Guidelines extracted from the remainder |of the original social contract. | |Here's the replacement for the social contract: | | |Debian's Social Contract | |The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common |cause to create a free operating system. This is the "social contract" |we offer to the free software community. | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | |"Social Contract" with the Free Software Community | | 1. Debian will remain 100% free software` | | Debian exists to distribute a general purpose system composed of | entirely free software. As there are many definitions of free | software, we use the "Debian Free Software Guidelines" to determine | if software is free. We will also support our users who develop | and run other software on Debian -- free or non-free -- but we will | never make the system depend on an item of non-free software. | | 2. We will give back to the free software community | | 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 "upstream" | authors of works included in our system. | | 3. We will not hide problems | | 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. | | 4. Our priorities are our users and free software | | 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. | | 5. Programs that don't meet our free-software standards | | We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of software | that don't conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We | support interoperability standards such as "Linux System Base", and | will accept bug reports where our system violates those standards. | To make our system more attractive to people with mild dependencies | on non-free software, we have created "contrib" and "non-free" areas | in our internet archive. The software in these directories is not | needed by most people, and we do not guarantee all software in the | non-free area may be distributed in other ways. Thus, although | we're working to reduce people's dependence on non-free software, | we support users who are still dependent. Additionally, we will | work to find, package and support free alternatives to non-free | software so people who use only free software can work with users | of non-free software.
I second this proposal. Friendly, Sven Luther -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAAwUX2WTeT3CRQaQRAqh7AJ9+OKvc8XbttL9nQxbxwv1a56skXgCfYuG1 vs6H3v+CbPb09HEavA4nb8I= =JY+k -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
