Hi,
I am sponsoring this general resolution.
Below are two spelling errors pointed out.
Thanks,
Marcus
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 02:25:03AM -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
^^^^^^ require
> 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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Distributions
> the Debian Constitution.
>
> -------- end of Resolution --------
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