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- Version 1.0 ratified on July 5, 1997. Superseded by Version 1.1,
- ratified on April 26, 2004.
-
- Debian, the producers of the Debian GNU/Linux system, have created the
- Debian Social Contract. The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) part
- of the contract, initially designed as a set of commitments that we
- agree to abide by, has been adopted by the free software community as
- the basis of the Open Source Definition.
- __________________________________________________________________
-
-"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 (DFSG)
-
- 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 not to 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".
-
- The concept of stating our "social contract with the free software
- community" was suggested by Ean Schuessler. This document was drafted
- by Bruce Perens, refined by the other Debian developers during a
- month-long e-mail conference in June 1997, and then accepted as the
- publicly stated policy of the Debian Project.
-
- Bruce Perens later removed the Debian-specific references from the
- Debian Free Software Guidelines to create "The Open Source Definition".
-
- Other organizations may derive from and build on this document. Please
- give credit to the Debian project if you do.