On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 09:03 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > William Pitcock <nenolod@sacredspiral.co.uk> writes: > > > Unfortunately, those who contribute to Debian must be dedicated to > > ensuring future releases of Debian support the latest available > > hardware at time of release. > > That's news to me. Where is such a dedication required? Is it some > special reading of the vague “our users” commitment, or do you get > this dedication from all Debian contributors some other way? > > Does that dedication somehow override every DD's explicit commitment > to ensuring Debian is 100% DFSG-free in the Social Contract? I worded that rather badly. You should imply "within acceptable terms of the DFSG" here... in this case, putting stuff in the nonfree firmware package in non-free is an acceptable solution. William
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