* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040428 18:25]: > > hereby resolves: > > > > 1. that the amendments to the Social Contract contained within the > > General Resolution "Editorial Amendments To The Social Contract" > > (2004 vote 003) be immediately rescinded; > > 2. that these amendments, which have already been ratified by the Debian > > Project, will be reinstated effective as of September 1, 2004 without > > further cause for deliberation.
> While I would certainly prefer this to "further discussion", I would > like to propose the following amendment. (Alert eyes will note that it's > Option C from Jeroen's post yesterday; I drafted the text that forms the > basis of that Option anyway. I talked to Jeroen, who says he's currently > busy with real-life tasks.) > Points 1. and 2. above are removed and replaced with: > > 1. that the following text be appended to the first clause of the > Social Contract: > > We apologize that the current state of some of our documentation and > kernel drivers with binary-only firmware does not live up to this > part of our Social Contract. While Sarge will not meet this standard > in those areas, we promise to rectify this in the following release. Though I understand some advantages of this, I think it will clutter the SC. Therefore, I would prefer to have this as clause 6 with a title like "Our standards were not always so strict", "Freedom of software is going to be stricter now" or similar. > The first clause of the Social Contract as amended will read as > follows: > [...] > > We apologize that the current state of some of our documentation and > kernel drivers does not live up to this part of our Social Contract. > While Debian 3.1 (codenamed sarge) will not meet this standard in > those areas, we promise to rectify this in the next full release. These texts are slightly different. Another annotation: This is not only valid for sarge, but also for woody etc. So I'd like the following change ".. sarge) _and_ _before_ will ...". > I'm looking for seconds for this amendment. I second hereby your proposals, without or with the small changes I proposed above (or that others are going to propose). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
