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diff --git a/includes/lenny/common/doc/social-contract.txt b/includes/lenny/common/doc/social-contract.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 63591f8f4..000000000 --- a/includes/lenny/common/doc/social-contract.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,118 +0,0 @@ - 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 Superseded by Version 1.1, - ratified on April 26, 2004.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. |