On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:35:02AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:22:07AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > I want to remind you all, that previous to the two GRs which clarified the > > meaning of what we must consider free, we had a widely disputed GR on the > > fate > > of our non-free section, and we all voted to keep it, especially because > > there > > was non-free software (including firmware, documentation and whatever), > > which > > was non-free but useful to our users, and we decided to keep it accordying > > to > > our social contract which put our users and free software on equal level. > > That's not correct. The project simply voted not to removed it at that > time, by defeating the GR. There was no affirmative vote to keep > non-free as far as I can remember. The amendment that passed was > a no-op that basically said that the status quo remains.
So, you simply discount the 100 or 1000s of email that preceded that vote, and all the argumentation against removing non-free, how convenient. The status quo in our voting system would have been none-of-the-above, so there was clearly a choice to keep non-free, if i remember well. > Not only that, but there were people that voted to abolish non-free, so > to state that "we all voted to keep it" is erroneous. We did all vote, and the result of that vote was to keep non-free, and the result of the vote are thus binding on the debian project as a whole (until the next GR about this topic that is). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]