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Encyclopedia > Debian Social Contract

The Debian Social Contract is a document framing the core moral agenda of the Debian Project. The values outlined in the Social Contract provide the moral compass for the rules set forth in the Debian Free Software Guidelines.


A user sacrifices a degree of control when selecting an Operating System for their computer. Debian believes that the makers of a Free Software operating system should provide certain guarantees when a user entrusts them with control of a computer. These guarantees include:

  • Ensuring that the operating system remains open and Free.
  • Giving back improvements to the community that made the operating system possible.
  • Not hiding problems with the software or organization.
  • Staying focused on the users and the software that started the phenomena.
  • Making it possible for the software to be used for real-world problems, even when that means working with non-free software.

External link

  • Debian Social Contract and the Free Software Guidelines (http://www.debian.org/social_contract)

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Social contract - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2115 words)
Social contract is a phrase used in philosophy, political science, and sociology to denote a real or hypothetical agreement within a state regarding the rights and responsibilities of the state and its citizens, or more generally a similar concord between a group and its members.
Contract theory is certainly not new; in Plato's Republic (c.360 BCE) Glaucon suggests that justice is a 'pact' among rational egoists, while Cicero (106-43 BCE) posited such a theory in the latter stages of the Roman Republic.
This is a contract which serves the perpetuity of the nation state, because it is easy to do as newborns do not have the cognitive or linguistic capacity to consent to the contract; thus the contract should be rendered null and void.
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