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-Debian GNU/Linux 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
-
- 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 "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.
-
- 2. We Will Give Back to the Free Software Community
-
- 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 "upstream" authors
- of software included in our system.
-
- 3. We Won't Hide Problems
-
- 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.
-
- 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 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.
-
- 5. Programs That Don't Meet Our Free-Software Standards
-
- We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of programs that
- don't conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We have created
- "contrib" and "non-free" 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.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-The Debian Free Software Guidelines
-
- 1. Free Redistribution
-
- 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.
-
- 2. Source Code
-
- The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in
- source code as well as compiled form.
-
- 3. Derived Works
-
- 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.
-
- 4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code
-
- The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified
- form _only if the license allows the distribution of "patch files" 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. (This is a
- compromise. The Debian group encourages all authors to not restrict any
- files, source or binary, from being modified.)
-
- 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
-
- The license must not discriminate against any person or group of
- persons.
-
- 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
-
- 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.
-
- 7. Distribution of License
-
- 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.
-
- 8. License Must Not Be Specific to Debian
-
- 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.
-
- 9. License Must Not Contaminate Other Software
-
- 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.
-
- 10. Example Licenses
-
- The "GPL", "BSD", and "Artistic" licenses are examples of licenses that
- we consider "free".
-
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