Hi,
This is a proposed draft of the ballot for this vote.
Comments solicited.
manoj
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Voting starts on Sunday, March 7 23:59:59 UTC 2004.
Votes must be received by Sunday, March 21 23:59:59 UTC 2004
The following *DRAFT* ballot is for voting on a General Resolution to
decide on future handling of the non-free section. The vote is being
conducted in accordance with the policy delineated in Section A,
Standard Resolution Procedure, of the Debian Constitution.
The details of the general resolution can also be found at:
http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_002
HOW TO VOTE
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2 in the brackets next to your next most preferred choice. Do not
enter a number smaller than 1 or larger than 4. You may rank options
equally (as long as all choices X you make fall in the range 1<= X <= 4).
To vote "no, no matter what" rank "Further Discussion" as more
desirable than the unacceptable choices, or you may rank the "Further
Discussion" choice, and leave choices you consider unacceptable
blank. Unranked choices are considered equally least desired choices,
and ranked below all ranked choices. (Note: if the "Further
Discussion" choice is unranked, then it is equal to all other unranked
choices, if any -- no special consideration is given to the "Further
Discussion" choice by the voting software).
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[ ] Choice 1: Cease active support of non-free [3:1 majority needed]
[ ] Choice 2: Re-affirm support for non-free non-free
[ ] Choice 3: Further Discussion
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Cease Active support of the non-free section: The text of the GR is:
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The next release of Debian will not be accompanied by a non-free
section; there will be no more stable releases of the non-free
section. The Debian project will cease active support of the
non-free section. Clause 5 of the social contract is repealed.
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Re-affirm support for non-free non-freeThe text of the GR is:
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It is proposed that the Debian project resolve that:
Acknowledging that some of our users continue to require the use of
programs that don't conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, we
reaffirm our commitment to providing the contrib and non-free areas in
our archive for packaged versions of such software, and to providing the
use of our infrastructure (such as our bug-tracking system and mailing
lists) to help with the maintenance of non-free software packages.
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The responses to a valid vote shall be signed by the vote key created
for this vote. The public key for the vote, signed by the Project
secretary, is appended below.
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(I have not yet created this key)
manoj
--
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from
a simple system that worked." John Gall, _Systemantics_
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
