Darren Benham, Project Secretary, has stated that this CFV actually counts as a proposal. I second the following proposed General Resolution. On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 11:03:33PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > - ------ > Debian General Resolution > > Resolved: > > A. That the Debian Social Contract with the Free Software Community be > amended as follows: > > 1. That text of Section 5 be modified to read: "We acknowledge that > some of our users require the use of programs that don't conform to > the Debian Free Software Guidelines. While we will not distribute > such software itself, we have created areas in our archive for > packages that help install or otherwise requre this software. The > software in these areas is not part of the Debian system, although > it has been configured for use with Debian." The title of > Section 5 shall be modified to read: "We will support users of our > system who develop or run non-free software." > > 2. That Section 1 be amended such that the final sentence reads: "We > will neither distribute nor make the system depend upon an item of > non-free software." > > B. That the non-free areas be removed from current Debian archives, > and that all packages so placed there in accordance with the > definition in Policy section 2.1.4 be removed from the Distribution > and archives. The introduction into the Debian Distribution or the > Debian archives of any package meeting the non-free definition in > Policy section 2.1.4, or failing the Debian Free Software Guidelines, > shall be forbidden. > > C. That the maintainer of the Debian Policy Manual, or an appointee of > the Debian Project Leader, be directed to update that manual > respective of the changes to the Project and general Project policy > detailed in sections A and B above. > > D. That the maintainers of the Debian archives and website, or an > appointee of the Debian Project Leader, be directed to implement the > changes to the Debian archives and website to reflect the changes to > Debian enacted by the foregoing clauses in this Resolution. > > E. That the disposition of the non-free areas in historical, released, > and frozen Debian Distrubutions and archives shall be determined per > the Debian Constitution. -- G. Branden Robinson | A committee is a life form with six or Debian GNU/Linux | more legs and no brain. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Robert Heinlein roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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