I Second this
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 01:05:55AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
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> 4. The Developers by way of General Resolution or election
>
> 4.1. Powers
>
> Together, the Developers may:
> 1. Appoint or recall the Project Leader.
> 2. Amend this constitution, provided they agree with a 3:1 majority.
> 3. Override any decision by the Project Leader or a Delegate.
> 4. Override any decision by the Technical Committee, provided they
> agree with a 2:1 majority.
> - 5. Issue nontechnical policy documents and statements.
> + 5. Issue, modify, and withdraw nontechnical policy documents and
> + statements.
> These include documents describing the goals of the project, its
> relationship with other free software entities, and nontechnical
> policies such as the free software licence terms that Debian
> software must meet.
> They may also include position statements about issues of the day.
> 6. Together with the Project Leader and SPI, make decisions about
> property held in trust for purposes related to Debian. (See
> s.9.1.)
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> Rationale: The clause being modified has been seen recently to be quite
> ambiguous. Since the original wording appeared to be amenable to two
> wildly different interpretations, this change adds clarifying language to
> the constitution about _changing_ or withdrawing nontechnical documents.
> Furthermore, this amended proposal does not include any orthogonal issues
> such as whether there exist any specific nontechnical documents that
> should require unusual amendment procedures. I think such issues should
> be decided on separately, since it is quite possible that reasonable
> developers can feel that the above is a reasonable clarification of the
> Constitution with such belief necessitating a particular position on the
> issues of special nontechnical documents, their identity, or their
> amendability.
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Peter 'darkewolf' Crystal
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