-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I read and approved the following proposed resolution.
I'm willing to second it, so that its CFV may be issued. - -- Ciao, Davide G. M. Salvetti <http://www.linux.it/~salve/> ***** JG => John Goerzen JG> Debian General Resolution JG> Resolved: JG> A. That the Debian Social Contract with the Free Software Community be JG> amended as follows: JG> 1. That text of Section 5 be modified to read: "We acknowledge that JG> some of our users require the use of programs that don't conform to JG> the Debian Free Software Guidelines. While we will not distribute JG> such software itself, we have created areas in our archive for JG> packages that help install or otherwise requre this software. The JG> software in these areas is not part of the Debian system, although JG> it has been configured for use with Debian." The title of JG> Section 5 shall be modified to read: "We will support users of our JG> system who develop or run non-free software." JG> 2. That Section 1 be amended such that the final sentence reads: "We JG> will neither distribute nor make the system depend upon an item of JG> non-free software." JG> B. That the non-free areas be removed from current Debian archives, JG> and that all packages so placed there in accordance with the JG> definition in Policy section 2.1.4 be removed from the Distribution JG> and archives. The introduction into the Debian Distribution or the JG> Debian archives of any package meeting the non-free definition in JG> Policy section 2.1.4, or failing the Debian Free Software Guidelines, JG> shall be forbidden. JG> C. That the maintainer of the Debian Policy Manual, or an appointee of JG> the Debian Project Leader, be directed to update that manual JG> respective of the changes to the Project and general Project policy JG> detailed in sections A and B above. JG> D. That the maintainers of the Debian archives and website, or an JG> appointee of the Debian Project Leader, be directed to implement the JG> changes to the Debian archives and website to reflect the changes to JG> Debian enacted by the foregoing clauses in this Resolution. JG> E. That the disposition of the non-free areas in historical, released, JG> and frozen Debian Distrubutions and archives shall be determined per JG> the Debian Constitution. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard <http://www.gnupg.org/> iD8DBQE5QhHkISswbJOWhl0RAnL0AJ98XRh3yRsJ1zcPTzF7iU15O+xXjACeK7A9 +a1uiBdl8J2FqaFbiDSGaGQ= =igYi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
