The effort to modify the Social Contract has stalled, and had degenerated into more dancing around this old issue. It's way past time to decide what we're actually going to do. We can work out how to do it later.
I propose the following resolution: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The next release of Debian will not be accompanied by a non-free section; there will be no more stable releases of the non-free section. Uploads to the non-free section of the archive will be disabled as soon as is feasible. The Debian project will cease active support of the non-free section. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Some constraints have been applied here on when these things will happen, but most has been left deliberately vague. The fate of the files currently in unstable/non-free is deliberately unspecified. This conflicts with the Social Contract as it currently stands. I am aware of this and I do not care; we can fix the Social Contract later. This probably prevents us from *acting* on this resolution until after the Social Contract has been modified (which I intend to pursue immediately if the resolution passes), but that doesn't really matter - the intent here is to decide what to do about non-free, and to commit to doing it for the sarge release. Later resolutions for reform of the Social Contract can be more effectively drafted once the outcome of this decision is known. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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