On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 06:10:24PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > I propose this amendment replacing my previous one: > > Points 1. and 2. above are removed and replaced with: > > 1. that the following text be appended to the first clause of the > Social Contract: > > We apologize that the current state of some of our documentation and > kernel drivers with binary-only firmware does not live up to this > part of our Social Contract. While Debian 3.1 (codenamed sarge) will > not meet this standard in those areas, we promise to rectify this in > the following release. > > The first clause of the Social Contract as amended will read as > follows: > > Debian will remain 100% free > > We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if a work is > "free" in the document entitled "The Debian Free Software > Guidelines". We promise that the Debian system and all its > components will be free according to these guidelines. We will > support people who create or use both free and non-free works on > Debian. We will never make the system require the use of a non-free > component. > > We apologize that the current state of some of our documentation and > kernel drivers with binary-only firmware does not live up to this > part of our Social Contract. While Debian 3.1 (codenamed sarge) will > not meet this standard in those areas, we promise to rectify this in > the next full release. > > 2. that the paragraph added to the Social Contract by this Resolution > shall be removed from the Social Contract upon the next full release > of Debian after Debian 3.1 (codenamed sarge), without further cause > for deliberation. > > Potential seconders, please note that this supersedes my previous > proposed amendment. Yeah, this makes a wee bit more sense than vorlon's proposal because it doesn't impose a fixed time limit and instead deals with it in relative terms. I don't see any seconds yet, so here's one. -- Josip Rodin (signed)
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