Hey Russ! On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 07:55:11PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> writes: > >> It's my current interpretation that all voting options, even if they >> might conflict with the DSC, will be on the ballot, and might not >> require a 3:1 majority. That is, I don't think the Secretary can decide >> not to include an option that might conflict, or put a 3:1 majority >> requirement on it because they think it conflicts. > >I'm not disagreeing with Kurt's interpretation here, but as a voter I >would love for one of the proponents of a ballot option to add non-free >firmware to the installer to state that they are going for a 3:1 majority >to modify the Social Contract and add an explicit statement to this effect >to point 5 of the Social Contract. It would only take a sentence, I >suspect, something like: > > The Debian installer may include firmware that does not conform to the > Debian Free Software Guidelines to enable use of Debian with hardware > that requires such firmware. If you were to propose an alternative to option A that added a 3:1 majority change to patch the SC, I would happily second it. But I certainly don't personally feel strongly enough about that change to propose it myself. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html
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