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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

Debian Project Secretary <secretary@debian.org> wrote:

> The fact that the license is buggy does not change the fact
> that works licensed under it would violate the DFSG. Given that, any
> resolution to allow these works to remain in Debian would require a
> rider to be added to the SC, something of the form:
> - Debian will remain 100% free
> + Debian will remain 100% free, apart from works licensed under the GFDL
> (the exact wording can be decided upon if the amendment passes).
>
> Since this requires a modification of a foundation document,
> the amendment requires a 3:1 majority.


I think the text should rather be fixed before the vote.=20=20

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