[Robert Millan] > 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. Seconded. (This is from the initial proposal.) I suggest, however, appending the phrase "to the best of our knowledge as of 1 November 2008". > 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. Seconded. (This is from the initial proposal.) > 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. Seconded. (This is after Manoj expanded point 2 and Robert shortened point 4.) -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/
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