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license, all parties to whom the program is redistributed should have the same

rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the Debian system.

9. License Must Not Contaminate Other Software

The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed

along with the licensed software. For example, the license must not insist that

all other programs distributed on the same medium must be free software.

10. Example Licenses

The  GPL ,  BSD , and  Artistic  licenses are examples of licenses that we

consider  free .

The concept of a Linux distribution stating its  social contract with the free

software community  was suggested to me by Ean Schussler. I composed a

draft, and then it was refined by the Debian developers in e mail conference

during most of June. They then voted to approve it as our publicly stated

policy. We hope that other software projects, including other Linux distribu 

tions, will use this document as a model. We will gladly grant permission for

any such use.

Respectfully Submitted

Bruce Perens

Debian Project Leader