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Re: Our social contract with the free-software community

Eric seems to be satisfied with the draft version of paragraph 1. I'm
waiting to see if he transfers the program to someone else, or if he
puts in new license terms first.

Here is my latest draft. If I don't hear much more, I will put this to
vote.

	Thanks

	Bruce

We are Software In The Public Interest, producers of the Debian GNU/Linux
system. This is the "social contract" we offer to the free software
community.

We promise to keep our GNU/Linux system entirely free software.
As there are many implementations of free software, we include the
guidelines we use to determine if software is "free" 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. 

We will contribute to the free software world. When we write new
software, we will license it as free software. We will make the best
free-software system we can, so that free software will be widely
distributed and easily used. We will feed back bug-fixes, improvements,
user requests etc. to the "upstream" authors of software included in our
system. We will keep a publically accessible bug-tracking system to assist
in this. 

We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free-software
community. We will put their interests first, heeding the needs
of other interests such as commercial software manufacturers only when
that is important to fulfill our users needs.

The Debian Free Software Guidelines

1. The software may be redistributed by anyone. The license for the
|  software must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow
|  them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the
|  original software. If the license restricts a source file from being
|  distributed in modified form, it must allow "patch files" to be
|  distributed with the source for the explicit purpose of modifying it
|  at build time. The license may require the producer of
|  modifications to assign the copyright of the modifications to someone
|  else or to the public domain. The license may require derived works to
|  carry a different name than the original software.

2. The license may not restrict any party from selling or giving
   away the software, nor may it require a royalty or license fee.

3. The license must not discriminate against any person or group of
    persons unless their use would violate a law of the country from
    which the software is distributed.

4. The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program
   in a specific field of endeavor where such use would not violate the
   laws of the country from which the software is distributed. For example,
   it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from
   being used for genetic research.

5. The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in
   source as well as binary form.

6. 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.

7. The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's
   being part of a Debian system. If a person extracts the program from
   Debian and uses it or distributes it without Debian, that person and
   any people to whom the program is redistributed should have the same
   rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the Debian system.

8. The license must not place restrictions on other software packages that
   are distributed on the same software medium. For example, the license
   must not insist that all other programs distributed with it must be
   free software.

The "GPL", "BSD", and "Artistic" licenses are examples of licenses that we
consider "free".
-- 
Bruce Perens K6BP   Bruce@Pixar.com   510-215-3502
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