As posted to the gentoo-nfp and gentoo-project mailing lists (v2 of the patch series, posted on 2024-07-20). Previous updates of the Social Contract (other then editorial changes): - https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=109335670308881&w=2 - bug 536668
Created attachment 898159 [details, diff] Social contract: Licenses must be free but not necessarily OSI-approved
Created attachment 898160 [details, diff] Social contract: Exceptions to the public bug policy
Created attachment 898161 [details, diff] Social contract: Update spelling of CC-BY-SA license
Created attachment 898162 [details, diff] Social contract: Restore Gentoo metastructure link
Created attachment 898163 [details] New text of the Social Contract
Trustees, Council: Please vote on approval of the updated Social Contract.
Yes (Council) Yes (Trustees)
Yes (Council)
Yes (Council).
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #0) > Previous updates of the Social Contract (other then editorial changes): > - https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=109335670308881&w=2 For future reference (because mail archives tend to be brittle), the first message in that thread is: From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:11:20 +0000 Subject: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: Social Contract change & What is "Gentoo" ? Message-Id: <20040824141120.GA9931@gentoo.org> > - bug 536668
yes and yes
yes (council)
Yes (Trustee)
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/sites/www.git/commit/?id=04e8f45f646a3d0465aa389e1a7b338e0b56e08c commit 04e8f45f646a3d0465aa389e1a7b338e0b56e08c Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2024-07-18 19:37:07 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-07-24 18:28:37 +0000 Social contract: Restore Gentoo metastructure link This had existed in the GuideXML version before: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/archive/proj/gentoo.git/tree/xml/htdocs/main/en/contract.xml#n66 Presumably, the link was dropped when migrating to Markdown. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/936517 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> get-started/philosophy/social-contract.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) https://gitweb.gentoo.org/sites/www.git/commit/?id=64abdb3e6a9611ecca18eaf4ec12897310e08ac5 commit 64abdb3e6a9611ecca18eaf4ec12897310e08ac5 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2024-07-19 21:38:27 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-07-24 18:28:37 +0000 Social contract: Update spelling of CC-BY-SA license Its official name is "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License". Change version to 2.0 because there never was a version 2. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/936517 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> get-started/philosophy/social-contract.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) https://gitweb.gentoo.org/sites/www.git/commit/?id=79eb7389aac7557cb431d40754f5c1e24221d55d commit 79eb7389aac7557cb431d40754f5c1e24221d55d Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2024-07-18 19:31:41 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-07-24 18:28:36 +0000 Social contract: Exceptions to the public bug policy After Gentoo Linux has become an associated project of SPI, the Council is the obvious entity to be responsible for the tasks previously assigned to the Trustees. Also reinstate the sentence that was previously deleted in commit b48c808 / bug 536668. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/936517 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> get-started/philosophy/social-contract.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) https://gitweb.gentoo.org/sites/www.git/commit/?id=3aa84726b1ee993a4c8182d77f1f82e9b2236fda commit 3aa84726b1ee993a4c8182d77f1f82e9b2236fda Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2024-07-18 19:30:48 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-07-24 18:28:36 +0000 Social contract: Licenses must be free but not necessarily OSI-approved Rationale: - The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License is not approved by the OSI. - The OSI has approved some dubious licenses (e.g. Watcom-1.0) which we do not want. - For a usable Gentoo operating system (e.g. installation media or stages) more licenses than those approved by FSF or OSI are needed. In practice we maintain our own list of licenses in the FREE license group. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/936517 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> get-started/philosophy/social-contract.md | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Accepted unanimously by both Council and Trustees. Leaving this bug open until the next Council meeting.
