Le Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:55:29PM +0100, Jordi Mallach écrivait: > - In our Leader Elections of 2001, one of the "hot topics" in the Debian > world was the proposal to remove the non-free archive. As most of you > know, that proposal never got resolved, and it finally ended dying > when everyone got bored of the gigantic flamewar. > Again, what is your stand about non-free & Debian? Would you push to > get a final answer on that debate? My personal opinion about non-free is that we shouldn't remove it. Both because it is a service for a small part of our users and because many software have licenses that are almost free software, they don't meet the DFSG because of a single criteria and those software could become DFSG-free with a bit of discussion with the upstream authors. That's exactly what I did with sympa when I first packaged it. I have not planned to relaunch this debate since I'm happy with the status-quo. However if some people really believe I'm wrong and go as far as launching a general resolution to propose the removal of non-free, I'll make sure the vote is organized so that we can settle on this issue once for all. > What would you do to solve the ambiguities that were found in our > Constitution during that debate? I'm sorry I don't remember what they were. Can you remember us ? > At the time of those votings, I felt our vote system was broken, as 3 > seconded proposals never got anywhere. I'd like to see this problem > solved. In the mean time I launched a General Resolution and it started fine even if I have withdrawn it. So our "vote system" is not broken if you care to follow strictly the constitution. Anyway, I'd make sure that our secretary does its job. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/ Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com
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