I also second this amendment, as it is now clear that it is indeed an amendment..
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Zephaniah E. Hull..
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 02:05:15AM +0200, Carsten Leonhardt wrote:
> Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
>
> > I wish to propose an ammendment to the proposed resolution as follows.
> >
> > The text of the resolution should be replaced with a call for the
> > developers to resolve that:
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > 1) the Debian project continues to acknowledge the utility of providing
> > non-free software for it users.
> >
> > 2) the Debian project also acknowledges that some developers may be
> > unwilling or unable to explicitly work on non-free software, and
> > holds that this is not and should not be detrimental to their work
> > on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, or their contribution to the
> > Debian project.
> >
> > 3) the Debian project considers equating the importance of the "contrib"
> > and "non-free" areas described in the Social Contract with the
> > official Debian GNU/Linux distribution inappropriate.
> >
> > 4) noting that the Debian project already distributes various other
> > collections of unofficial packages, the project endorses a move to
> > specifically collect the various other add-on components such as
> > "experimental", "orphaned", "non-free" and "contrib" and to clearly
> > separate these from the "main" collection.
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I second this amendment.
>
> For the entertainment of those who think "This is not really an
> amendment", here the first definition of "to amend" from Webster 1913:
>
> To change or modify in any way for the better; as,
> (a) by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt,
> superfluous, faulty, and the like;
> (b) by supplying deficiencies;
> (c) by substituting something else in the place of what is
> removed; to rectify.
>
>
> leo
>
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