On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 12:43:35PM -0500, Nils Lohner wrote: > > I'd agree except that the part I'm referring to are not a part of the social > contract. The change is just in the intro to the contract. I can post this > to -private if you like, but I don't see the need for it. Actually the 'We > are Debian..' sounds Borg-ish... maybe something more subtle like > > "Debian, the producers of the Debian GNU/Linux system, have created the > 'Debian Social Contract' which is a set of commitments that we offer to the > free software community. > You're right, it's not part of the social contract itself. I propose the following text for the introduction. If you agree, I'll commit it to CVS.
<P>Debian, the producers of the Debian GNU/Linux system, have created the <strong>Debian Social Contract</strong>. The contract, initially designed as as a set of commitments that we agree to abide by, has been adopted by the majority of the free software community as the basis of the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/";>Open Source</a> movement. The splitting of the files will have to wait until I have a half hour to kill looking for links that will break.
