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Re: Free OS versus free hw



On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 15:15 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Since the Social Contract promises Debian *won't* ship non-free
> > things, that's not an option compatible with the promises made by the
> > Debian project.
> 
>  I might not have said it clearly enough:
>  - I agree the current DFSG and social contract imply we need to provide
>    sources for these firmware if they are shipped in Debian

Good :).

>  - in turn, this implies that I'm suggesting we might need to reword
>    parts of them to reduce the perimeter of Debian to something
>    achievable which we still love and aim for

I think that that would not be Debian anymore.

-Rob
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