On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Colin Watson wrote: > 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. Seconded. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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