On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 04:54:25PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've been reminded that as Acting Secretary I should officially announce the > results of the recent vote. My apologies for the delay! > > Details of the outcome and how various options were voted are available at > > http://www.debian.org/vote/2008/vote_003 > > The winning option was number 5, "Assume blobs comply with GPL unless proven > otherwise", the full text of which is appended below. > > Since the election concluded, several developers have asked for some statement > from the DPL and/or Secretary as to what this result really means. Steve and > I have discussed it, and we think it's pretty clear. This result means that > the Debian Lenny release can proceed as the release team has intended, with > the kernel packages currently in the archive.
Hi Bdale, What the release team intended (at least before the vote), as represented by lenny-ignore tags is to skip more DFSG violations than just kernel packages, see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211765 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=368559 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=424957 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=391935 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=459705 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=382175 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509287 However, your announcement seems to assume these only concerned kernel packages. This leaves the message open to interpretation, it could mean any of the following: - You assume the release team no longer intends to ignore DFSG violations for these packages. - The RT gets an exception for kernel packages, as they intended, but not for the rest of Debian. - The developers are implicitly endorsing an exception for the rest of Debian packages. Please, could you send a new message clarifiing the situation, and your judgement as Secretary? Thanks! -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
