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Debian GNU/Linux Social Contract
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The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common
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cause to create a free operating system. This is the "social contract"
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we offer to the free software community.
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"Social Contract" with the Free Software Community
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1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software
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We promise to keep the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution entirely free
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software. As there are many definitions of free software, we include
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the guidelines we use to determine if software is "free" below. We will
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support our users who develop and run non-free software on Debian, but
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we will never make the system depend on an item of non-free software.
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2. We Will Give Back to the Free Software Community
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When we write new components of the Debian system, we will license them
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as free software. We will make the best system we can, so that free
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software will be widely distributed and used. We will feed back
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bug-fixes, improvements, user requests, etc. to the "upstream" authors
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of software included in our system.
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3. We Won't Hide Problems
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We will keep our entire bug-report database open for public view at all
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times. Reports that users file on-line will immediately become visible
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to others.
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4. Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software
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We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free-software
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community. We will place their interests first in our priorities. We
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will support the needs of our users for operation in many different
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kinds of computing environment. We won't object to commercial software
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that is intended to run on Debian systems, and we'll allow others to
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create value-added distributions containing both Debian and commercial
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software, without any fee from us. To support these goals, we will
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provide an integrated system of high-quality, 100% free software, with
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no legal restrictions that would prevent these kinds of use.
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5. Programs That Don't Meet Our Free-Software Standards
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We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of programs that
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don't conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We have created
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"contrib" and "non-free" areas in our FTP archive for this software.
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The software in these directories is not part of the Debian system,
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although it has been configured for use with Debian. We encourage CD
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manufacturers to read the licenses of software packages in these
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directories and determine if they can distribute that software on their
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CDs. Thus, although non-free software isn't a part of Debian, we
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support its use, and we provide infrastructure (such as our
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bug-tracking system and mailing lists) for non-free software packages.
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The Debian Free Software Guidelines
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1. Free Redistribution
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The license of a Debian component may not restrict any party from
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selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate
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software distribution containing programs from several different
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sources. The license may not require a royalty or other fee for such
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sale.
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2. Source Code
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The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in
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source code as well as compiled form.
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3. Derived Works
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The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow
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them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the
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original software.
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4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code
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The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified
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form _only if the license allows the distribution of "patch files" with
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the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time.
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The license must explicitly permit distribution of software built from
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modified source code. The license may require derived works to carry a
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different name or version number from the original software. (This is a
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compromise. The Debian group encourages all authors to not restrict any
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files, source or binary, from being modified.)
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5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
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The license must not discriminate against any person or group of
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persons.
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6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
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The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in
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a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the
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program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic
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research.
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7. Distribution of License
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The rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the
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program is redistributed without the need for execution of an
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additional license by those parties.
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8. License Must Not Be Specific to Debian
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The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's
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being part of a Debian system. If the program is extracted from Debian
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and used or distributed without Debian but otherwise within the terms
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of the program's license, all parties to whom the program is
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redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in
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conjunction with the Debian system.
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9. License Must Not Contaminate Other Software
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The license must not place restrictions on other software that is
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distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license
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must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium
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must be free software.
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10. Example Licenses
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The "GPL", "BSD", and "Artistic" licenses are examples of licenses that
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we consider "free".
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