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Debian, the producers of the Debian GNU/Linux system, have created the Debian Social
Contract. The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) part of the contract, initially designed
as a set of commitments that we agree to abide by, has been adopted by the free software
community as the basis of the Open Source Definition.
Social Contract with the Free Software Community
1. Debian will remain 100% free
We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if a work is free in the document entitled
The Debian Free Software Guidelines. We promise that the Debian system and all its components
will be free according to these guidelines. We will support people who create or use both free and
non-free works on Debian. We will never make the system require the use of a non-free component.
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. Works that do not meet our free software standards
We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of works that do not conform to the Debian
Free Software Guidelines. We have created contrib and non-free areas in our archive for these works.
The packages in these areas are not part of the Debian system, although they have been configured for
use with Debian. We encourage CD manufacturers to read the licenses of the packages in these areas
and determine if they can distribute the packages on their CDs. Thus, although non-free works are not
a part of Debian, we support their use and provide infrastructure for non-free packages (such as our
bug tracking system and mailing lists).
The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)
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.
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