Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract

2003-11-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Anthony Towns wrote: >What, exactly, is the point of removing non-free from the social contract, >if we're not going to remove non-free entirely? Hmm. To remove non-free, but not contrib? To add new restrictions on what can be in non-free? (Currently the only requirement for a package in non-f

Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract

2003-11-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Anthony Towns wrote: >What, exactly, is the point of removing non-free from the social contract, >if we're not going to remove non-free entirely? Hmm. To remove non-free, but not contrib? To add new restrictions on what can be in non-free? (Currently the only requirement for a package in non-f

Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract

2003-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:46:54PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:18:19AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:04:03PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > The draft so far adds no such proscription for the admins > > > (indeed, the whole point is

Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract

2003-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:46:54PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:18:19AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:04:03PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > The draft so far adds no such proscription for the admins > > > (indeed, the whole point is

Re: GRs, irrelevant amendments, and insincere voting

2003-11-03 Thread Chad Walstrom
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:29:41PM +, Jochen Voss wrote: > I tried to do something similar with my Debian voting system page at > > http://seehuhn.de/comp/vote.html > > Suggestions how this page could be improved are very welcome. Yes! Let's move it to the the http://www.debian.org/vote

Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract

2003-11-03 Thread Chad Walstrom
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 12:46:24PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > In other words, you approve of removing non-free, starting with some > future releases of debian, but keeping non-free in our historical > archives. Yes. There are other ways we can provide support for third-party software, but they a

Re: GRs, irrelevant amendments, and insincere voting

2003-11-03 Thread Chad Walstrom
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:29:41PM +, Jochen Voss wrote: > I tried to do something similar with my Debian voting system page at > > http://seehuhn.de/comp/vote.html > > Suggestions how this page could be improved are very welcome. Yes! Let's move it to the the http://www.debian.org/vote

Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract

2003-11-03 Thread Chad Walstrom
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 12:46:24PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > In other words, you approve of removing non-free, starting with some > future releases of debian, but keeping non-free in our historical > archives. Yes. There are other ways we can provide support for third-party software, but they a

Re: GRs, irrelevant amendments, and insincere voting

2003-11-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Nov 3, 2003, at 01:22, Anthony Towns wrote: Where's our origin? It's at "keep doing what we're doing now". It's not quite at the origin; we have, as a project, not made any formal decision to keep i386. If we were to vote on it, we would of, I suppose under 4.1.5 of the Constitution. (A

Re: GRs, irrelevant amendments, and insincere voting

2003-11-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Nov 2, 2003, at 17:09, Raul Miller wrote: On the other hand, if there really four *orthogonal* issues, then maybe there should be four ballots. It's only when the issues are intertwined that it makes sense to put them on the same ballot. That's really all I'm saying.

Re: GRs, irrelevant amendments, and insincere voting

2003-11-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Nov 3, 2003, at 01:22, Anthony Towns wrote: Where's our origin? It's at "keep doing what we're doing now". It's not quite at the origin; we have, as a project, not made any formal decision to keep i386. If we were to vote on it, we would of, I suppose under 4.1.5 of the Constitution. (Aside

Re: GRs, irrelevant amendments, and insincere voting

2003-11-03 Thread Raul Miller
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:58:25PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Huh? Do you mean replace the entire social contract with that, or > > replace the text of the resolution with that? On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 11:49:54PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Gosh. Have you been reading the thread

Re: GRs, irrelevant amendments, and insincere voting

2003-11-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Nov 2, 2003, at 17:09, Raul Miller wrote: On the other hand, if there really four *orthogonal* issues, then maybe there should be four ballots. It's only when the issues are intertwined that it makes sense to put them on the same ballot. That's really all I'm saying. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract

2003-11-03 Thread Raul Miller
> On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:24:20PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > What, exactly, is the point of removing non-free from the social > > contract, if we're not going to remove non-free entirely? > > > > Who, exactly, would vote for removing non-free from the social > > contract, but not from the

Re: GRs, irrelevant amendments, and insincere voting

2003-11-03 Thread Raul Miller
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:58:25PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Huh? Do you mean replace the entire social contract with that, or > > replace the text of the resolution with that? On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 11:49:54PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Gosh. Have you been reading the thread

Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract

2003-11-03 Thread Raul Miller
> On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:24:20PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > What, exactly, is the point of removing non-free from the social > > contract, if we're not going to remove non-free entirely? > > > > Who, exactly, would vote for removing non-free from the social > > contract, but not from the

Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract

2003-11-03 Thread Chad Walstrom
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:24:20PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > What, exactly, is the point of removing non-free from the social > contract, if we're not going to remove non-free entirely? > > Who, exactly, would vote for removing non-free from the social > contract, but not from the archive? I

Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract

2003-11-03 Thread Chad Walstrom
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:24:20PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > What, exactly, is the point of removing non-free from the social > contract, if we're not going to remove non-free entirely? > > Who, exactly, would vote for removing non-free from the social > contract, but not from the archive? I

Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract

2003-11-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:01:47PM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: > I support Branden's proposal but I don't support the removal of > non-free. The social contract says that "we have created "contrib" and "non-free" areas [for non-free software]. [...] We support its use, and we provide infrastructu

Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract

2003-11-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:01:47PM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: > I support Branden's proposal but I don't support the removal of > non-free. The social contract says that "we have created "contrib" and "non-free" areas [for non-free software]. [...] We support its use, and we provide infrastructu

Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract

2003-11-03 Thread Michael Banck
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 s

Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract

2003-11-03 Thread Peter Makholm
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Nov 2, 2003, at 00:04, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> What do you mean, without a mandate? If the GR passes with a >> landslide, woudn't that be a mandate? > > Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps the landslide just means people don't want > to loudly

Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract

2003-11-03 Thread Michael Banck
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 s

Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract

2003-11-03 Thread Peter Makholm
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Nov 2, 2003, at 00:04, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> What do you mean, without a mandate? If the GR passes with a >> landslide, woudn't that be a mandate? > > Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps the landslide just means people don't want > to loudly

Re: GRs, irrelevant amendments, and insincere voting

2003-11-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:58:25PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 05:17:55PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Consider the "amendment" (in name only), > >Replace lines ^ through $ with the words, "Debian should continue to > >produce a distribution." > > Huh? D

Re: GRs, irrelevant amendments, and insincere voting

2003-11-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:22:50PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Why do you think that voting for "Remove non-free" means that we wouldn't > > continue to produce a distribution? Why do you think that ballot would be > > treated differently to: > > [ ] Remove non-free? > > [ ] Don't

Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract

2003-11-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:39:56PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > For reference, I wouldn't be. Either: > > Further, non-free and contrib shall be removed from the archive, > > and no longer supported by the Debian project. > > or > > Further, non-free and contrib shall continue to be

Re: GRs, irrelevant amendments, and insincere voting

2003-11-03 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:58:25PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 05:17:55PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Consider the "amendment" (in name only), > >Replace lines ^ through $ with the words, "Debian should continue to > >produce a distribution." > > Huh? D