Superseded: Non-free Archive Removal

Proposal-0008: Superseded by a GR in 2004

Date

June 7, 2000

Proposer

John Goerzen [jgoerzen@debian.org]

Seconds

Text

Resolved:

A. That the Debian Social Contract with the Free Software Community be
amended as follows:

  1. That text of Section 5 be modified to read: "We acknowledge that
  some of our users require the use of programs that don't conform to
  the Debian Free Software Guidelines.  While we will not distribute
  such software itself, we have created areas in our archive for
  packages that help install or otherwise require this software.  The
  software in these areas is not part of the Debian system, although
  it has been configured for use with Debian."  The title of
  Section 5 shall be modified to read: "We will support users of our
  system who develop or run non-free software."

  2. That Section 1 be amended such that the final sentence reads: "We
  will neither distribute nor make the system depend upon an item of
  non-free software."

B. That the non-free areas be removed from current Debian archives,
and that all packages so placed there in accordance with the
definition in Policy section 2.1.4 be removed from the Distribution
and archives.  The introduction into the Debian Distribution or the
Debian archives of any package meeting the non-free definition in
Policy section 2.1.4, or failing the Debian Free Software Guidelines,
shall be forbidden.

C. That the maintainer of the Debian Policy Manual, or an appointee of
the Debian Project Leader, be directed to update that manual
respective of the changes to the Project and general Project policy
detailed in sections A and B above.

D. That the maintainers of the Debian archives and website, or an
appointee of the Debian Project Leader, be directed to implement the
changes to the Debian archives and website to reflect the changes to
Debian enacted by the foregoing clauses in this Resolution.

E. That the disposition of the non-free areas in historical, released,
and frozen Debian Distributions and archives shall be determined per
the Debian Constitution.

Opposition

None Recorded

Amendments

Seconded accepted by proposer
(none)
Seconded awaiting vote

Needing Seconds (none)

Quorum

Due to the uniqueness of the situation, quorum is yet to be determined

Proceedings

John Goerzen has issued a call for vote on June 29th, 2000. Vote was conducted between October 10th, 2000 and October 24, 2000.

Outcome

Per section A.5 ("Expiry") of the constitution, both John Goerzen's General Resolution regarding non-free, and Anthony Towns's amendment thereto, have expired. The recent vote was conducted in error, and its ballots are hereby voided and the results have not been tabulated.