I have previously seconded these proposals, but this is to confirm that I still second these, with the modifications. > Option 1 (reaffirm the Social Contract) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free > software community (Social Contract #4); > 2. We acknowledge that we promised to deliver a 100% free operating > system (Social Contract #1); > 3. Given that we have known for two previous releases that we have > non-free bits in various parts of Debian, and a lot of progress has > been made, and we are almost to the point where we can provide a free > version of the Debian operating system, we will delay the release of > Lenny until such point that the work to free the operating system is > complete (to the best of our knowledge as of 1 November 2008). > Option 2 (allow Lenny to release with proprietary firmware) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free > software community (Social Contract #4); > 2. We acknowledge that there is a lot of progress in the kernel > firmware issue; most of the issues that were outstanding at the time > of the last stable release have been sorted out. However, new issues > in the kernel sources have cropped up fairly recently, and these new > issues have not yet been addressed; > 3. We assure the community that there will be no regressions in the > progress made for freedom in the kernel distributed by Debian relative > to the Etch release in Lenny (to the best of our knowledge as of 1 > November 2008); > 4. We give priority to the timely release of Lenny over sorting > every bit out; for this reason, we will treat removal of sourceless > firmware as a best-effort process, and deliver firmware as part of > Debian Lenny as long as we are legally allowed to do so. > (Since this option overrides the SC, I believe it would require 3:1 > majority) > Option 3 (allow Lenny to release with DFSG violations) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free > software community (Social Contract #4); > 2. We acknowledge that there is a lot of progress on DFSG > compliance issues; however, they are not yet finally sorted out; > 3. We assure the community that there will be no regressions in the > progress made for freedom in the packages distributed by Debian > relative to the Etch release in Lenny (to the best of our knowledge as > of 1 November 2008); > 4. We give priority to the timely release of Lenny over sorting > every bit out; for this reason, we will treat fixing of DFSG > violations as a best-effort process. > (Since this option overrides the SC, I believe it would require 3:1 > majority)
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