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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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Hey all,

- From a discussion a while ago[0] I am going to reword Section I of our
Social Contract[1] with the intent it was written for (the wording
currently goes further than intended).

Old wording:
We promise to keep the Sourcemage GNU/Linux Distribution entirely free
(as in freedom). This means that all software we release will be
licensed under the GNU Public License, and all of the software
included in our distribution will be under a GPL compatible license,
as defined by the Free Software Foundation (fsf.org). All of our
documentation will be released under the GNU Free Documentation
License. While we recognize that these are not the only "free"
software licenses, we choose to maintain the simplicity that this
solution provides. We will support our users who develop and run
non-free software on SMGL, but we will never make the core system
depend on an item of non-free software.

New wording:
We promise to keep the Source Mage GNU/Linux Distribution entirely
free (as in freedom). This means that all software we release will be
licensed under the GNU General Public License as defined by the Free
Software Foundation (fsf.org). All of our documentation will be
released under the GNU Free Documentation License. While we recognize
that these are not the only "free" software licenses, we choose to
maintain the simplicity that this solution provides. We will support
our users who develop and run non-free software on SMGL, but we will
never make the core system depend on an item of non-free software.

Let me know if you have any comments/questions/suggestions.

- -sandalle

[0]
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/sm-discuss/2005-February/009548.html
[1] http://www.sourcemage.org/SocialContract

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us                  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/  #196285  |  http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
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