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Re: 1. RFD: Reorganization of the Debian Project

Dominik Kubla writes:
-> 1. Issuing a formal charter for the Debian Project, defining the
->    goals of the project and the way to achive them.

This is a good idea.  The primary problem with the XFree issue was
handled was that people had differing ideas of what the most important
concern was, security, stability or timeliness.  It doesn't need to be
formal, necessarily, but we do need a set of guidelines which states
what criteria are most important in a Debian release.

-> 2. Election of a board of directors.  The BoD should supervise the
->    development process, make official statements on behalf of the
->    project and draft policy decisions to be decided by the Project
->    Members.
I don't think this is necessary.  Day-to-day operations go pretty
smoothly.  The few large issues that arise (as recently), can either
be decided by Bruce via fiat, or by vote on debian-private. The
biggest mistake made, as Ian said, was sitting around talking about
it, instead of doing something.

Then a couple of unrelated issues:
-> 3. Registering the "The Debian Project" as (non-profit) organization.
->    Thus allowing the project to accept donations and to collect fees
->    for the usage of its tradmarks (see below).
->    
-> 4. Trademarking the names "Debian", "Debian Project" and
->    "Debian-Linux" to prevent misuse and to collect (moderate) fees
->    from CD distributors (mostly to cover the expenses of the project
->    like network connectivty provided by I-Connect)
I'm not sure this is the way to go. "The software is free, but you
gotta pay to use the name"?  IMHO, any sort of non-voluntary payment
involved in making a CD with Debian on hurts the project, as fewer
CD's get distributed, and the GNU spirit under which Debian is
developed. Distributing our own 'Official' Debian CD might be
worthwhile, but we have to stay true to the Free software spirit.

-> These proposals are not meant as disaproval of the activities of any
-> member of the Debian Team, but the conclusion drawn from reviewing the
-> recent events.

Ditto.

-Larry


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