Hello,
To All Debian Contributors, Enjoy Debian Day!
On August 16th, the Debian Project celebrates its 27th birthday. The
Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th,
1993. At that time, the whole concept of a "distribution" of GNU/Linux
was new. Ian intended Debian to be a distribution which would be made
openly, in the spirit of Linux and GNU. The creation of Debian was
sponsored by the FSF's GNU project for one year.
Debian was meant to be carefully and conscientiously put together,
and to be maintained and supported with similar care. It started as a
small, tightly-knit group of Free Software hackers, and gradually grew
to become a large, well-organized community of developers and users.
To achieve and maintain high standards of quality, Debian has adopted
an extensive set of policies and procedures for packaging and
delivering software. These standards are backed up by tools,
automation, and documentation implementing all of Debian's key
elements in an open and visible way.
The most prominent guidelines are the [Debian Free Software
Guidelines] which are part of the Social Contract and which direct
Debian's interpretation of Free Software and upon which the Debian
distribution is based. They were later adopted as the Open Source
Definition.
[Debian Free Software Guidelines]
: https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
Source: text excerpts from Debian's 10th anniversary news entry.
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