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Re: on the goal of debian

On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> From: Christoph Lameter <chris@waterf.org>
> > The Social Contract explicitly states that Debian is driven by the needs
> > of the users and the free software community. The free software community
> > includes a variety of approaches to licensing not only the GPL or our
> > acknowledged licenses.
> 
> When we say "free software" in the social contract, we mean "the set of
> programs that pass all of the conditions of the DFSG". Note that the DFSG
> is part of the social contract, and "100% free software" is item 1 of the
> social contract. By Debian's definition, any one of those variety of
> approaches that fails even one condition of the DFSG is _not_free_software_.

So the "free software community" is the community that adheres to the
contract? This is self-referential and really does not clarify the
situation.

If you mean by that all those who truly "believe" in the GPL gospel then I
am and maybe half of the rest of the Linux world are outside of the
free software community.


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