Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: new proposal
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Hi,
I second Manoj's proposal as quoted below.
Cheers,
Bernd
> ,----[ Proposal 5: allow Lenny to release with firmware blobs ]
> | 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software
> | community (Social Contract #4);
> |
> | 2. We acknowledge that there is a lot of progress in the kernel firmware
> | issue; most of the issues that were outstanding at the time of the
> | last stable release have been sorted out. However, new issues in the
> | kernel sources have cropped up fairly recently, and these new issues
> | have not yet been addressed;
> |
> | 3. We assure the community that there will be no regressions in the
> | progress made for freedom in the kernel distributed by Debian
> | relative to the Etch release in Lenny (to the best of our knowledge
> | as of 1 November 2008);
>
> | 4. We give priority to the timely release of Lenny over sorting every
> | bit out; for this reason, we will treat removal of sourceless
> | firmware as a best-effort process, and deliver firmware as part of
> | Debian Lenny as long as we are legally allowed to do so, and the
> | firmware is distributed upstream under a license that complies
> | with the DFSG.
> `----
>
> This is just proposal 2 + the last clause of item 4. I am
> formally proposing this as an amendment, either to replace proposal 2;
> or as a formal alternative in its own right, and I am asking for
> seconds.
>
> manoj
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Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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