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Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations



Am Donnerstag, den 30.10.2008, 01:48 -0500 schrieb William Pitcock:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 22:52 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > But regardless, Debian has promised that Debian is only free software.
> 
> Then why does Debian have non-free? Is that not part of Debian?

"Thus, although non-free works are not a part of Debian, ..."
Social contract, paragraph 5.


> If non-free is meant to be an opt-in part of Debian, then put the
> distributable firmware there and be done with it.

You know, quite a big part of the discussion is about whether this is 
a) feasible at all
b) feasible so short before a release

	Thomas




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