> Option 1 (reaffirm the Social Contract) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software > community (Social Contract #4); > > 2. We acknowledge that we promised to deliver a 100% free operating system > (Social Contract #1); > > 3. 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 (to the best of our knowledge as of 1 November 2008). > > > Option 2 (allow Lenny to release with proprietary 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 (to the best of our knowledge as of 1 November 2008); > > 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 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) > > > Option 3 (allow Lenny to release with 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 (to the best of our knowledge as of 1 November > 2008); > > 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 second all of the above options. I also approve in advance changing the two instances of "1 November 2008" to some later date, in case the Project would like to take responsibility for any regressions discovered after 1 November. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/
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