I second the following proposals, as I believe that they should be voted on: (Robert Millan's unammended Option 1:) > Option 1 (reaffirm the Social Contract) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free > software community (Social Contract #4); > 2. Given that we have known for two previous releases that we have > non-free bits in various parts of Debian, and a lot of progress has > been made, and we are almost to the point where we can provide a free > version of the Debian operating system, we will delay the release of > Lenny until such point that the work to free the operating system is > complete. (Robert Millan's option 2, with expanded point 2 and shortened point 4:) > Option 2 (allow Lenny to release with propietary firmware) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free > software community (Social Contract #4); > 2. We acknowledge that there is a lot of progress in the kernel > firmware issue; most of the issues that were outstanding at the > time of the last stable release have been sorted out. However, new > issues in the kernel sources have cropped up fairly recently, and > these new issues have not yet been addressed. > 3. We assure the community that there will be no regressions in the > progress made for freedom in the kernel distributed by Debian > relative to the Etch release in Lenny > 4. We give priority to the timely release of Lenny over sorting > every bit out; for this reason, we will treat removal of sourceless > firmware as a best-effort process, and deliver firmware in udebs as > long as it is necessary for installation (like all udebs), and > firmware included in the kernel itself as part of Debian Lenny, as > long as we are legally allowed to do so. > (Since this option overrides the SC, I believe it would require 3:1 > majority) (Robert Millan's unammended option 3:) > Option 3 (allow Lenny to release with any DFSG violations) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free > software community (Social Contract #4); > 2. We acknowledge that there is a lot of progress on DFSG > compliance issues; however, they are not yet finally sorted out; > 3. We assure the community that there will be no regressions in the > progress made for freedom in the packages distributed by Debian > relative to the Etch release in Lenny > 4. We give priority to the timely release of Lenny over sorting > every bit out; for this reason, we will treat fixing of DFSG > violations as a best-effort process. > (Since this option overrides the SC, I believe it would require 3:1 > majority) I would also suggest adding the clause "to the best of our knowledge" to point 3 in options 2 and 3. I would, naturally, also second such an amended proposal. -- Hubert Chathi <uhoreg@debian.org> -- Jabber: hubert@uhoreg.ca PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA
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