On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:36:09PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> Some views on the relationship of the constitution
> and the social contract:
>
> Ian Jackson: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-9803/msg01778.html
> Darren Benham: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote-0010/msg00019.html
> Wichert Ackerman: ?
> Branden Robinson: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote-0010/msg00036.html
>
> And, of course, we have the current situation, where "we" are trying to
> change the social contract, and passion and procedure are tripping over
> each other.
>
> Best resolution I can imagine is: we ratify the social contract
> as having the same significance as the constitution.
>
> So, I'm proposing the following consitutional ammendment (to be
> appended to the bottom of the current constitution):
>
>
> C. The Social Contract
>
> Just as this constitution specifies how Debian decides what to
> do, the Social Contract specifies what Debian is. As Debian
> will occasionally need to redefine itself, the procedure for
> modifying the Social Contract shall be the same as the procedure
> for modifying this Constitution.
Should we also add the DFSG here ?
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
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