First Call for votes: General resolution for the handling of the non-free section
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Voting starts on Sunday, March 7 23:59:59 UTC 2004.
Votes must be received by Sunday, March 21 23:59:59 UTC 2004.
The following ballot is for voting on a General Resolution to decide
on future handling of the non-free section. The vote is being
conducted in accordance with the policy delineated in Section A,
Standard Resolution Procedure, of the Debian Constitution.
The details of the general resolution can also be found at:
http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_002
HOW TO VOTE
Do not erase anything between the lines below and do not change the
choice names.
In the brackets next to your most preferred choice, place a 1. Place a
2 in the brackets next to your next most preferred choice. Do not
enter a number smaller than 1 or larger than 4. You may rank options
equally (as long as all choices X you make fall in the range 1<= X <= 3).
To vote "no, no matter what" rank "Further Discussion" as more
desirable than the unacceptable choices, or you may rank the "Further
Discussion" choice, and leave choices you consider unacceptable
blank. Unranked choices are considered equally least desired choices,
and ranked below all ranked choices. (Note: if the "Further
Discussion" choice is unranked, then it is equal to all other unranked
choices, if any -- no special consideration is given to the "Further
Discussion" choice by the voting software).
Then mail the ballot to gr_non_free@vote.debian.org (replying to this
mail may work, but please check the headers). Don't worry about
spacing of the columns or any quote characters (">") that your reply
inserts. NOTE: The vote must be GPG signed (or PGP signed) with your
key that is in the Debian keyring. Do _NOT_ encrypt your ballot; the
voting mechanism shall not be able to decrypt your message.
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[ ] Choice 1: Cease active support of non-free [3:1 majority needed]
[ ] Choice 2: Re-affirm support for non-free
[ ] Choice 3: Further Discussion
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Details of the choices are as follows.
Cease Active support of the non-free section: The text of the GR is:
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The next release of Debian will not be accompanied by a non-free
section; there will be no more stable releases of the non-free
section. The Debian project will cease active support of the
non-free section. Clause 5 of the social contract is repealed.
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Re-affirm support for non-free. The text of the GR is:
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It is proposed that the Debian project resolve that:
Acknowledging that some of our users continue to require the use of
programs that don't conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, we
reaffirm our commitment to providing the contrib and non-free areas in
our archive for packaged versions of such software, and to providing the
use of our infrastructure (such as our bug-tracking system and mailing
lists) to help with the maintenance of non-free software packages.
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secretary, is appended below.
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