[Sent this only to Manoj when I meant to send it to the list; resending.] On Sat, 09 Sep 2006, Debian Project Secretary wrote: > I am afraid I am beginning to lose track of the various > proposals that have been brought forth to address how to handle the > issue of source less material in the kernel sources. Could the > proponents of the various proposals submit a summary, including the > formal text of the GR, the seconds supporting it (possibly with the > dates of the mail seconding the proposal, to help track down the > signatures), and the one line summary they would like to see on the > ballot?
This is basically what I have;[1] I wrote this up because I'm trying to think of a good way to combine 3 and 4, ideally as another option to #2, since I think that's what they're getting at... but for now: 1. DFSG #2 does not apply to firmware and data Seconds: Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Isaac Clerencia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2. DFSG #2 applies to all programmatic works Seconds: Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alexander Wirt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> René van Bevern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3. Exception for etch firmware Seconds: martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Sylvain Le Gall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Daniel Ruoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Guilherme de S. Pastore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4. Special exception to DFSG #2 for firmware Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Clément Stenac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Julien Danjou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> == Currently do not have enough seconds == 5. Revert SC, firwmare need not follow DFSG #2 Seconds: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6. Allow hardware support from non-free (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 7. Apologize for releasing non-free firmware (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 1: It should be noted that this is about 24 hours old, and I haven't rigorously checked the signatures to verify that they are actually signed by keys in the keyring. -- All bad precedents began as justifiable measures. -- Gaius Julius Caesar in "The Conspiracy of Catiline" by Sallust http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
