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			= Debian Social Contract =

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	Supersedes [https://www.debian.org/social_contract.1.1 Version 1.1] ratified on April 26th, 2004, and [https://www.debian.org/social_contract.1.0 Version 1.0] ratified on July 5, 1997.		Supersedes [https://www.debian.org/social_contract.1.1 Version 1.1] ratified on April 26th, 2004, and [https://www.debian.org/social_contract.1.0 Version 1.0] ratified on July 5, 1997.

	Debian, the producers of the Debian system, have created the Debian Social Contract. The [[~~Debian_Social_Contract#The Debian Free Software Guidelines (~~DFSG)\|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 [https://opensource.org/docs/osd Open Source Definition].		Debian, the producers of the Debian system, have created the Debian Social Contract. The [[DFSG\|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 [https://opensource.org/docs/osd Open Source Definition].

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Version 1.2 ratified on October 1st, 2022.

Supersedes [https://www.debian.org/social_contract.1.1 Version 1.1] ratified on April 26th, 2004, and [https://www.debian.org/social_contract.1.0 Version 1.0] ratified on July 5, 1997.

Debian, the producers of the Debian system, have created the Debian Social Contract. The [[Debian_Social_Contract#The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)|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 [https://opensource.org/docs/osd 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 official media may include firmware that is otherwise not part of the Debian system to enable use of Debian with hardware that requires such firmware.

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