On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 03:00:50PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > I am not a DD (yet), and this is not a GR proposal (yet). However, I'm > requesting comments on it, and maybe it'll be more tenable to people > more reluctant to remove non-free.
> PROPOSAL 1 > -------- - > Whereas, > the Debian Project exists to create a distribution of free software; > many Developers do not consider it moral or equitable to provide, > freely, our project's resources to projects who are unwilling or > unable to provide their code freely to the public; > the importance of non-free software has greatly decreased since the > founding of the project; and > outside groups have been quite able to provide well-integrated > software no harder to obtain than that from Debian's own mirror > network: > It is resolved that, > After the release of Sarge, Debian shall not continue to include > non-free in "testing" or "unstable." Sarge shall be the last > release of Debian to include a non-free section. We will continue > to support the non-free section of Sarge for as long as the free > section of it. People who still require non-free software after > that are encouraged to set up their own distribution network for > it. > To effect this, a new version of the Social Contract with only clauses > 1 through 4 is hereby issued. > The major effective difference in this proposal is that Sarge will > still include non-free, in order to give people plenty of time (3 > years?) to migrate to free alternatives or find different hosting for > their non-free packages. <harumph> So the palatibility of this proposal depends on the premise that our release schedules will continue to get worse? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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