http://lwn.net/Articles/76622/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Debian votes to keep non-free". hourly 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/76633/rss 2004-03-22T10:30:38+00:00 mbanck <i>There has also been discussion about setting up a separate entity with separate servers - nonfree.org - which may or may not go ahead now.</i><p>This is undecided right now - the person who agreed to host the box and was having a good deal of the Debian archive infrastructure installed already was not amenable to keep on with the non-free.org effort should the resolution fail.<p>A probable outcome would be to not clone the current non-free part of Debian somewhere else but rather start a new service where current and future maintainers of non-free software could migrate/host their packages. If this proves successful, it could lead to the obsolence of non-free on debian.org in a couple of years, who knows?<p>I would have to check back with the people supporting non-free.org and also a new box and hosting would be needed most probably.<p>Michael http://lwn.net/Articles/76630/rss 2004-03-22T10:05:47+00:00 ballombe The votes are kept secret only for the DPL elections. <br> <br>See Debian constitution 4.2.3: <br> Votes are taken by the Project Secretary. Votes, tallies, and results are not revealed <br>during the voting period; after the vote the Project Secretary lists all the votes cast. <br>The voting period is 2 weeks, but may be varied by up to 1 week by the Project <br>Leader. <br> <br>And Debian constitution 5.2.5: <br>The next three weeks are the polling period during which Developers may cast their <br>votes. Votes in leadership elections are kept secret, even after the election is <br>finished. <br> <br>The votes are at &lt;http://master.debian.org/~srivasta/gr_non_free_tally.txt&gt; <br>as mentionned in the article. http://lwn.net/Articles/76631/rss 2004-03-22T10:03:33+00:00 amacater See Manoj's email quoted above. Alternatively, go to the page, go down<br>the bar on the left hand side 'til you find the non-free resolution<br>and click on it. Part way down the page there is a dummy tally hyperlink - which, unsurprisingly, is now the real tally :)<p>HTH,<p>Andy http://lwn.net/Articles/76629/rss 2004-03-22T09:32:33+00:00 LintuxCx Where do you see the votes from all individual developers? I thought Debian kept the votes private and just published the total results. And indeed I can't find my vote back on that page. Just a list of people who second a proposal voted about. http://lwn.net/Articles/76628/rss 2004-03-22T07:08:42+00:00 amacater This has come at the end of a very significant amount of discussion/flame<br>wars on the mailing lists. Most of the folk involved won't want to do<br>this again within a year :) Somewhat surprisingly, it seems that all<br>three of the Debian project leader candidates voted against keeping non-free<br>[More details at http://vote.debian.org - where you can check which people<br>voted for which option].<p>There has also been discussion about setting up a separate entity<br>with separate servers - nonfree.org - which may or may not go ahead now.<p>The non-free software provided as a service by Debian does _not_ form<br>part of the Debian software distribution.