Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

To: Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>
Cc: debian-vote@lists.debian.org, Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@in-medias-res.com>
Subject: Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR
From: Ean Schuessler <ean@brainfood.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:35:17 -0600 (CST)
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In-reply-to: <20081229145237.GJ6847@country.nixsys.be>

----- "Wouter Verhelst" wrote:
> Nowhere in the constitution is it said that the DFSG is law, and that it
> cannot be overridden. Nowhere in the constitution is it said that the
> social contract is law, and that it cannot be overridden.
> I'm not saying we should just thump them out, but a temporary compromise
> is not necessarily a change of our principles.
> So, yes, that does require interpretation.

Could we please vote on whether the Social Contract is the "foundation" of the constitution?

This notion that the SC is a "suggestion" is making my brain hurt.

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Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com
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