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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 Superseded by Version 1.1,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.