Hi, no need to cc: me, I read -vote.
On Thursday 30 October 2008 18:29, Robert Millan wrote:
> I hereby propose this General Resolution:
>
> Option 1 (reaffirm the Social Contract)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software
> community (Social Contract #4);
>
> 2. We acknowledge that we promised to deliver a 100% free operating
> system (Social Contract #1);
>
> 3. Given that we have known for two previous releases that we have
> non-free bits in various parts of Debian, and a lot of progress has
> been made, and we are almost to the point where we can provide a
> free version of the Debian operating system, we will delay the
> release of Lenny until such point that the work to free the operating
> system is complete (to the best of our knowledge as of 1 November
> 2008).
>
>
> Option 2 (allow Lenny to release with proprietary firmware)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software
> community (Social Contract #4);
>
> 2. We acknowledge that there is a lot of progress in the kernel firmware
> issue; most of the issues that were outstanding at the time of the
> last stable release have been sorted out. However, new issues in the
> kernel sources have cropped up fairly recently, and these new issues
> have not yet been addressed;
>
> 3. We assure the community that there will be no regressions in the
> progress made for freedom in the kernel distributed by Debian relative to
> the Etch release in Lenny (to the best of our knowledge as of 1 November
> 2008);
>
> 4. We give priority to the timely release of Lenny over sorting every
> bit out; for this reason, we will treat removal of sourceless firmware as a
> best-effort process, and deliver firmware as part of Debian Lenny as long
> as we are legally allowed to do so.
>
> (Since this option overrides the SC, I believe it would require 3:1
> majority)
>
>
> Option 3 (allow Lenny to release with DFSG violations)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software
> community (Social Contract #4);
>
> 2. We acknowledge that there is a lot of progress on DFSG compliance
> issues; however, they are not yet finally sorted out;
>
> 3. We assure the community that there will be no regressions in the
> progress made for freedom in the packages distributed by Debian relative to
> the Etch release in Lenny (to the best of our knowledge as of 1 November
> 2008);
>
> 4. We give priority to the timely release of Lenny over sorting every
> bit out; for this reason, we will treat fixing of DFSG violations as a
> best-effort process.
>
> (Since this option overrides the SC, I believe it would require 3:1
> majority)
I second to vote on all there three options, under whatever title they are
summarized.
regards,
Holger
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