I am seconding/sponsoring the general resolution, which can be found below. Thanks, Marcus On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 11:03:33PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > DEBIAN GENERAL RESOLUTION > > Proposed by: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> > Seconds: Stephen R. Gore <sgore@debian.org> > Jim Lynch <jim@laney.edu> > Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> > Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> > Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> > Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu> > Per Lundberg <plundis@chaosdev.org> > > Having met the requirement for introduction, this is a formal call for > votes as per section 4.2.1 of the Debian Constitution. > > Text of resolution: > > - ------ > 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. > > - -------- end of Resolution -------- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard <http://www.gnupg.org/> > > iD8DBQE5PxrW3PeFtIodmh8RAt5MAJ4wUWZ7mJDoPIcm4NZwztUFy2ncEwCgmHja > IrcaPiwHPnKyJAZzBNwB4KA= > =1f6E > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de, marcus@gnu.org PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ brinkmd@debian.org
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