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Author Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract
Frank Küster

2006-01-19, 6:25 pm

Adeodato Sim=F3 <dato@net.com.org.es> wrote:

> * Debian Project Secretary [Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:12:50 -0600]:
>
>
> I don't see why this _physical modification_ is necessary. I can admit
> that the secretary says "this amendment overrules the social contract,
> since it talks about putting non-free things in main, so it requires a
> 3:1 majority"; but if the amendment passes, and so the GR issues a
> statement that some GFDL documents will remain in main, I don't think
> explicit wording is needed _in_ the SC, at all.


I disagree - either the interpretation of the SC allows GFDL'ed
documents without invariant (et al) sections, then we don't need a 3:1
majority, or it doesn't - then we have to change it if we want to keep
our promises.

Regards, Frank
--=20
Frank K=FCster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Z=
=FCrich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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