The debian-private mailing list leak, part 1. Volunteers have complained about Blackmail. Lynchings. Character assassination. Defamation. Cyberbullying. Volunteers who gave many years of their lives are picked out at random for cruel social experiments. The former DPL's girlfriend Molly de Blanc is given volunteers to experiment on for her crazy talks. These volunteers never consented to be used like lab rats. We don't either. debian-private can no longer be a safe space for the cabal. Let these monsters have nowhere to hide. Volunteers are not disposable. We stand with the victims.
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Re: "Social Contract" - final pass

Bruce, I like this a lot! The new format, with the tag line for each item
makes the intent much more clear for each section. Great!

On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> I have reformatted the "social contract" and have added material
> suggested by Sven. Let's do a final pass on this document, and then
> hold a final vote to ratify it. Comments, please?
> 
> 	Thanks
> 
> 	Bruce
> 
>    DEBIAN'S "SOCIAL CONTRACT" WITH THE FREE SOFTWARE COMMUNITY
> 
> 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.
> 
> 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software
> 
> We promise to keep the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution entirely free
> software. As there are many implementations 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 our users use of it, and we provide infrastructure (such as
> our bug-tracking system and mailing lists) for non-free software
> packages.
> 
>             THE DEBIAN FREE SOFTWARE GUIDELINES
> 
> 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.
> 
> 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
> 
> The license must not discriminate against any person or group of
> persons unless their use would violate a law of the country from
> which the software is distributed.
> 
> 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 where such use would not violate the
> laws of the country from which the software is distributed. 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 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".
> 
> -- 
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