On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 09:14:37AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 03:44:05PM +0000, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >
> > I think we have had enough discussion on this. I am now
> > looking for seconds for this proposal, and shall make an announcement
> > on -devel and -user.
> > ======================================================================
> > 4. The Developers by way of General Resolution or election
> >
> > 4.1. Powers
> >
> > Together, the Developers may:
> > 1. Appoint or recall the Project Leader.
> > 2. Amend this constitution, provided they agree with a 3:1 majority.
> > 3. Override any decision by the Project Leader or a Delegate.
> > 4. Override any decision by the Technical Committee, provided they
> > agree with a 2:1 majority.
> > - 5. Issue nontechnical policy documents and statements.
> > - These include documents describing the goals of the project, its
> > - relationship with other free software entities, and nontechnical
> > - policies such as the free software licence terms that Debian
> > - software must meet.
> > - They may also include position statements about issues of the day.
> > + 5. Issue, modify and withdraw nontechnical policy documents and statements.
> > + These include documents describing the goals of the project, its
> > + relationship with other free software entities, and nontechnical
> > + policies such as the free software licence terms that Debian
> > + software must meet.
> > + They may also include position statements about issues of the day.
> > + 5.1 A special clause applies to the documents labelled as
> > + "Foundation Documents". These documents are those
> > + that are deemed to be critical to the core of the project,
> > + they tend to define what the project is, and lay the
> > + foundations of its structure. The developers may
> > + modify a foundation document provided they agree with a 3:1
> > + majority.
> > + 5.2 Initially, the list of foundation Documents consists
> > + of this document, The Debian Constitution, as well as the
> > + documents known as the Debian GNU/Linux Social Contract and the
> > + Debian Free Software Guidelines. The list of the documents
> > + that are deemed to be "Foundation Documents" may be changed
> > + by the developers provided they agree with a 3:1 majority.
> > 6. Together with the Project Leader and SPI, make decisions about
> > property held in trust for purposes related to Debian. (See
> > s.9.1.)
> > ======================================================================
> > Rationale: The clause being modified has been seen recently to be quite
> > ambiguous. Since the original wording appeared to be amenable to two
> > wildly different interpretations, this change adds clarifying language to
> > the constitution about _changing_ or withdrawing nontechnical documents.
> > Additionally, this also provides for the core, or Foundation, documents of
> > the project the same protection against hasty changes that the
> > constitution itself enjoys.
> > ======================================================================
>
> Seconded.
seconded by me, too.
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craig sanders
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