On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 15:01:09 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> (Really should read ahead further ... here are more, and all laid out
> together)
>
> * DFSG Free Software only (I know this one will get debated, but this is
> the whole point of Debian Enterprise - if you want proprietary software,
> go buy Red Hat or SUSE/Novell).
>
This goes without saying. If it's under the Debian name, it should comply
w/ the various Debian policies.
> * Specifically targetting For-Profit entities (vs Debian-NP)
>
Is this really a goal? While we're not specifically targeting non-profit
entities, we're not going to exclude them, either; especially if they have
infrastructure similar to a standard for-profit company. Non-profits need
their oracle, too. ;)
> * 100% Debian (Social Contract, DFSG, policies + procedures)
>
> * LSB compliance
I think LSB compliance is one of the most important things listed (aside
from standard stuff like policy compliance). We want commercial
software vendors to supply binaries that adhere to the LSB; whether
distributed in deb, rpm, or tarball format. Furthermore, we want to
convince commercial software vendors that working within the LSB is more
important than working within Debian. A company may certify their
software to work w/ DE (or a DE flavor); we should convince them to
certify software to work w/ all LSB-compliant distributions. This allows
companies to not limit themselves to DE, or a subset of DE flavors, but
all of Debian (and other LSB-compliant distributions).
>
> * "Official" statement as to support of Freedesktop.org standards
>
> * Common Criteria ("not until we're big enough")
>
> * OpenCOE ("the COE folks had to wedge _apt_ into Red Hat to get it to
> work to their satisfaction")
>
> * "we have a FIPS 140 certification for OpenSSL"
>
> * Other standards ??
