On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:18:19AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > 13) Clause 5 has been stricken entirely. *This amendment does NOT > mandate the removal of the non-free section from anything, > anywhere.* What it does do is withdraw our commitment to provide a > "non-free section" via a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) archive > specifically. This makes it possible for us to decide, in the near > or distant future, to stop distributing the non-free section without > violating our own Social Contract. > > This is part of the rationale. This goes on the ballot. It > *absolutely* should go on the ballot if you, as Project Secretary, feels > there is a reasonable chance of the proposal being misunderstood > otherwise.
You might want to consider putting this up some paces. Having such a crucial part of your RfD at position 13) of your rationale might get it overlooked. I'm speaking out of personal experience, as I was unable to catch the removal of Clause 5 from casually reading the word-diff and only found out about it by having a look at Richard's nice HTML page. Of course, I did not read through your proposal in detail, as I was short on time back then and it was only a proposal. But a couple of other DDs, presented only with the ballot, might overlook the deletion of Clause 5, too. (I'd like to add that I applaud the deletion of that clause, although I'm not sure we should mix up all that stuff) Of course, I did not read most of the discussion on -vote in the last days, so excuse me if this has been covered extensively already. Michael -- "My personal opinion is that I think RMS should be debian's leader, and he should change the name to 'The GNU Operating System' or 'The GNU Distribution'. Only with a leader who knows the value of equality can the project get rid of these idiots." -- Eray Ozkural -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
