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PROPOSED: [CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT] Alternate disambiguation of 4.1.5



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Hi,

	Indeed, I had proposed this in -project on the 19th of
 July. This addresses the same ambiguity that Brandon does in his
 proposal, but in a distincly different fashion. I would suggest that
 this should be offered as an alternative to Brandon's proposal, if it
 comes to a vote (if the rules lawyers deem that permissible). If not,
 this may stand on its own (leaving open the possibility that both,
 almost opposite, amendments may be accepted). 

	I am now looking for seconds for this proposal. 


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 4. The Developers by way of General Resolution or election
 
   4.1. Powers
   
    Together, the Developers may:
     1. Appoint or recall the Project Leader.
     2. Amend this constitution, provided they agree with a 3:1 majority.
     3. Override any decision by the Project Leader or a Delegate.
     4. Override any decision by the Technical Committee, provided they
        agree with a 2:1 majority.
- -    5. Issue nontechnical policy documents and statements.
- -       These include documents describing the goals of the project, its
- -       relationship with other free software entities, and nontechnical
- -       policies such as the free software licence terms that Debian
- -       software must meet.
- -       They may also include position statements about issues of the day.
+    5. Issue, modify and withdraw nontechnical policy documents and statements.
+       These include documents describing the goals of the project, its
+       relationship with other free software entities, and nontechnical
+       policies such as the free software licence terms that Debian
+       software must meet.
+       They may also include position statements about issues of the day.
+   5.1 A special clause applies to the documents labelled as
+       "Foundation Documents". These documents are those 
+       that are deemed to be critical to the core of the project,
+       they tend to define what the project is, and lay the
+       foundations of its structure. The developers may
+       modify a foundation document provided they agree with a 3:1
+       majority. 

- -- +   5.2 Initially, the list of foundation Documents consists
+       of this document, The Debian Constitution, as well as the
+       documents known as the Debian GNU/Linux Social Contract and the 
+       Debian Free Software Guidelines. The list of the documents
+       that are deemed to be "Foundation Documents" may be changed
+       by the developers provided they agree with a 3:1 majority. 
     6. Together with the Project Leader and SPI, make decisions about
        property held in trust for purposes related to Debian. (See
        s.9.1.)
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 Rationale: The clause being modified has been seen recently to be quite
 ambiguous. Since the original wording appeared to be amenable to two
 wildly different interpretations, this change adds clarifying language to
 the constitution about _changing_ or withdrawing nontechnical documents.
 Additionally, this also provides for the core, or Foundation, documents of
 the project the same protection against hasty changes that the
 constitution itself enjoys.
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        manoj

 If you are what you eat, does that mean Euell Gibbons really was a
 nut?
Manoj Srivastava   <srivasta@debian.org>  <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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