I'd agree except that the part I'm referring to are not a part of the social contract. The change is just in the intro to the contract. I can post this to -private if you like, but I don't see the need for it. Actually the 'We are Debian..' sounds Borg-ish... maybe something more subtle like
"Debian, the producers of the Debian GNU/Linux system, have created the 'Debian Social Contract' which is a set of commitments that we offer to the free software community. Nils. In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "James A. Treacy" writes: >On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 11:24:50AM -0500, Nils Lohner wrote: >> >Sorry if I'm being pedantic, but the social contract was approved >as is, so we really should at least mention any suggested changes >on debian-devel. > See above. >> I'd like a few changes to this page. I'll go through them one at a time, >> and justify them as well. >> >> >> . "We are Software In The Public Interest, producers of the Debian GNU/Linux > >> system. This is the "social contract" we offer to >> the free software community." >> >> This needs to be changed to 'We are Debian, ...' or something similar. >> Debian != SPI, but Debian is affiliated with SPI. Also, name the soclail >> contract explicitly. That makes it sound more official. How about: >> >> "We are Debian, the producers of the Debian GNU/Linux system. This is the >> 'Debian Social Contract' which is a set of commitments that we offer to the >> free software community." >> >> . Split this page into three pages, a page stating what the social contract >> and DFSG are, and then one page for each of the documents. This is >> important because it establishes each as a separate document, and also >> because as Open Source grows we want to be able to point people explicitly >> and directly to the DFSG. [I know that this will take a lot of redoing of >> links to the DFSG, but I think that it it important to split the pages... >> sorry!] >> >Splitting the page in three isn't a problem as it doesn't change the content. >BTW, many links already point directly to the DFSG: social_contract#guidelines >Do you still want the split done? > Yes, I'd like to see it on a separate page... maybe www.debian.org/DFSG for the DFSG etc. Having them separated makes each one more important IMO. Plus, each can be printed directly from the web pages and handed out at shows etc :) >> . Please add (to the page for the social contract and the DFSG) a notice at >> the bottom stating that >> "Other organizations to derive from and build on this document. >> Please give credit to the Debian project if you do." >> This is a request from Bruce Perens, the author of the documents. >> Apparently this used to be on the page, but disappeared at some point during > >> the rewrite. >> >This also needs no approval and is already done. > >I'm curious about the statement 'this used to be on the page' as the text >currently on the page is exactly what Bruce requested. Oh well. > Hmm... he mentioned this in a discussion a few weeks ago. Oh well :) >BTW, the text added is actually: > Other organizations may derive from and build on this document. > Please give credit to the Debian project if you do. > Great, thanks. >Jay Treacy >