On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:15:09AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > I herby propose the following editorial changes to the SC, as > alternative to Andrews proposal: Since ballot alternatives start out life as amendments to the current proposal, I think it would be helpful if you could provide this as a diff (unified diff would be nice, but verbal diff is ok ;) against Andrew's proposal, rather than referencing the original SC. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer > | 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software > | > | We promise to keep the Debian system and all its components entirely > | free software. We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if > | a work is "free" in the document entitled "The Debian Free Software > | Guidelines" below. We will support our users who develop and run > | non-free software on Debian, but we will never make the system depend > | on an item of non-free software. > | > | 2. We Will Give Back To The Free Software Community > | > | When we create new components of the Debian system, we will license > | them as free software. We will make the best system we can, so that > | free works will be widely distributed and used. We will communicate > | bug fixes, improvements, user requests, etc. to the "upstream" authors > | of works included in our system. > | > | 3. We will not hide problems > | > | We will keep our entire bug report database open for public view at > | all times. Reports that people file online will immediately become > | visible to others. > | > | 4. Our priorities are our users and free software > | > | We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free software > | community. We will place their interests first in our priorities. We > | will support the needs of our users for operation in many different > | kinds of computing environments. We will not object to non-free works > | that are intended to be used on Debian systems, or attempt to charge a > | fee to people who create or use such works. We will allow others to > | create distributions containing both the Debian system and other > | works, without any fee from us. In furtherance of these goals, we will > | provide an integrated system of high-quality materials with no legal > | restrictions that would prevent such uses of the system. > | > | 5. Works that do not meet our free software standards > | > | We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of works that do > | not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We have created > | "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our archive for these works. The > | packages in these areas are not part of the Debian system, although > | they have been configured for use with Debian. We encourage CD > | manufacturers to read the licenses of the packages in these areas and > | determine if they can distribute the packages on their CDs. Thus, > | although non-free works are not a part of Debian, we support their use > | and provide infrastructure (such as our bug tracking system and > | mailing lists) for non-free packages. > Changes to Andrews proposal: > 1.: More or less the current SC, with the second sentence replaced > with the first sentence of Andrews proposal and added the word "below" > to it. > 2.: More or less the current SC; only replaced the word "write" with > "create". > 3.: keep the word "immediately" instead of "promptly" (as this is, at > least in my opinion, easier to understand for non-native speakers). > 4.: Same as Andrews proposal > 5.: Same as Andrews proposal, except that in the last sentence the > words "for non-free packages" have been moved to the end to prevent > the mis-interpretation that the BTS is not free.
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