On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:32:59PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > Unless I'm missing something, the release manager doesn't have the authority > > to override the Social Contract (1.1) that was ratified by GR in April. > > You might have missed GR 2004-003, and the discussions therein.
GR 2004-003 (which I supported) implies that the discussion on wether firmware is software is no longer relevant, so please keep that aside. > There > are proposals to override the SC for the release of sarge. Please answer this: Since you agree with proposals for future versions of the Social Contract and disagree with the current one, do you find it justified to violate the Social Contract untill a version of your liking is committed? > Also, it is > not even decided if the previous sarge release policy is a violation > of the social contract (or if the SC does not even ask for it because > we want to release rather soon now), It's not about Sarge release policy, it's about violation of DFSG (and, in some cases, copyright law [1]) in our unstable archive. [1] IANAL. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T., Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
