Editing Debian Social Contract (section)

==History==
The idea of the DSC was first proposed by Ean Schuessler after a conversation with [[Bob Young (businessman)|Bob Young]], co-founder of [[Red Hat]]{{when|date=April 2014}}. Schuessler said Red Hat should issue a set of guidelines that would guarantee to the community as the company expanded it would always be committed to the ideals of [[Free Software]]. Young said this would be a "kiss of death" for Red Hat, implying it would constrain the company's ability to generate profit. Concerned about Young's response, Schuessler and other Debian developers decided to broach the idea of a "social contract" that would supplement Debian's initial manifesto written by [[Ian Murdock]]. [[Bruce Perens]] later led the effort from June 1997<ref>[https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/1997/msg00017.html Debian's "Social Contract" with the Free Software Community] email from Bruce Perens to debian-announce, July 4th 1997</ref> to coordinate the creation of the DSC using the [[Free Software Definition]] as its basis.<ref name="Coleman">{{cite web|ssrn=805287|title=Three Ethical Moments in Debian|last=Coleman|first=Gabriella|date=September 15, 2005|publisher=NYU - Department of Media, Culture, and Communication|pages=14–15|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=805287}}</ref><ref name="Chopra">{{cite book | first1=Samir | last1=Chopra | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Goy10UgzwRQC | title=Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software | publisher=Psychology Press | accessdate=2013-01-08 | last2=Dexter | first2=Scott D. | series=Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture Series | year=2008 | pages=37–38 | isbn=9780415978934}}</ref>

The Debian project ratified its social contract 1.0 on July 5, 1997.<ref>{{cite web|title=Debian Social Contract|url=http://www.debian.org/social_contract|publisher=Debian project|accessdate=17 June 2013}}</ref>