On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:17:53AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > This is an updated draft of the proposal I posted earlier today > > This draft replaces the LSB reference with an ABI reference. > > Let's hold off on seconding this proposal until the 19th. There's a > non-zero chance that it will need to be changed again. > > Note that the addition of ABI reference might be considered technical > policy. I'd like the project secretary to make a ruling on this, if > he's still available [if he's not available in the next couple days, > I'll bring this up with the technical committee chairman]. If it is a > point of technical policy, we'll need the TC to approve this proposal > before it can be be considered as a GR. [I'll take responsibiity for > seeing that that happens, if it is needed.] > > The rationale for this proposal is: clean up the social contract and > bring its words in line with the way we have been interpreting it. > > - -- > > I propose the following resolution: > > We will replace our social contract with two documents, as specified > by the recent constitutional amendment. The first replacement document > will be the social contract below, and the second replacement document > will be the Debian Free Software Guidelines extracted from the remainder > of the original social contract. > > Here's the replacement for the social contract: > > > Debian's 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 > > Debian exists to distribute a general purpose system composed of > entirely free software. As there are many definitions of free > software, we use the "Debian Free Software Guidelines" to determine > if software is free. We will also support our users who develop > and run other software on Debian -- free or non-free -- but we will > never make the system depend on 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 in a manner consistent with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. > We will make the best system we can, so that free works will be > widely distributed and used. We will communicate things such > as bug fixes, improvements and user requests to the "upstream" > authors of works included in our system. > > 3. We will not hide problems > > We will keep our entire bug report database open for public view > at all times. Reports that people file online will promptly 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 environments. We will not object to non-free > works that are intended to be used on Debian systems, or attempt to > charge a fee to people who create or use such works. We will allow > others to create distributions containing both the Debian system and > other works, without any fee from us. In furtherance of these goals, > we will provide an integrated system of high-quality materials with > no legal restrictions that would prevent such uses of the system. > > 5. Software that doesn't meet our free-software standards > > We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of software > which does not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. > In order to accommodate these users, we have created "contrib" and > "non-free" areas in our internet archive. The software in these > directories is not needed by most people, and we do not guarantee > all software in the non-free area may be distributed in other ways. > For those who need to run software we do not distribute, free or > non-free, we support application binary interface standards. Thus, > although we're working to reduce people's requirements for non-free > software, we support users who are still dependent. Additionally, > we will work to find, package and support free alternatives to > non-free software so people who use only free software can work > with users of non-free software. > > - -- > Raul > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.3ia > Charset: noconv > > iQEVAwUBQAfmEvK/+Baey4gJAQGyaggAnkO6J3u2UsawbeBGP7M4c7FJFnP5VbjO > osVIwOyL892iRMBD74e57f6bcA/rZvvYXTBOD3iFNGSdAIUg8FbrZXDMBysI6qGO > RsdiQ6wSFKoBL0tN1bCCvCqL16zQXj0mtjKCSl9u4WTi5BeFvW5mPd+coEb05gm1 > MgB0cwK/13KK/TnZnN7iaiDCgcA0PRGdzeTrcoj/pfBeZ14aSx6idQB1bsaQURyk > UeB4UXu1l+tjYqMpIVY+oaKwbsBhLi7ulCFUf/K9go5+702Fe5AjNSHPVv7y2+Q0 > x+bI55F0ubR1HWufqk+UpA8WhJ7jOj5pYU4EK0NFNRgX67/pjJGJ+g== > =HGNp > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Seconded. (It's now the 20th here.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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