Re: Proposal - Statement that Sarge will follow Woody requirement for main.
* Debian Project Secretary (secretary@debian.org) [040523 23:55]:
> On Sat, 22 May 2004 01:41:13 +0200, Bill Allombert
> <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> said:
> > 4. The Developers by way of General Resolution or election
>
> > 4.1. Powers
>
> > Together, the Developers may:
> > 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.
>
> > ---------------------
>
> > We, Debian developers, issue the statement:
>
> > "On the question on what software should be allowed in the main
> > section of our archive (The official Debian distribution) for our
> > forthcoming release code-named Sarge, we resolve that we will apply
> > the same criterion as for our preceding release, code-named Woody."
>
> > ---------------------
>
>
> > I suppose it fits as "a nontechnical policies such as the free
> > software licence terms that Debian software must meet.". It would
> > require a simple majority to pass, then.
> I do not think we can over ride the constitution, and other
> foundation documents, with a simple position statement; so I would
> not think a simple position statement can trump the SC.
I think we can override it with a position statement that has the same
requirements as a change of the fundation document, i.e. this position
statement would require a 3:1-majority.
Cheers,
Andi
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