>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> writes:
Marc> On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 08:21:10 -0600, Sam Hartman
Marc> <hartmans@debian.org>
Marc> wrote:
>> One valuable suggestion was to make sure users could easily
>> select freedom if that's what they wanted. So I think a free
>> installation image is important.
Marc> Would that not be possible by having an image WITH firmware
Marc> and an installer asking whether the user wants a free or a
Marc> usable system?
No, not really.
Imagine that you have some constraint like the DFSG for media that you
distribute.
An image that asks whether you want to install non-free firmware
included in the image is by definition not DFSG-free, and so you could not
distributie it in such an environment.
For example I would thinki it would be entirely reasonable for someone
to want to include a version of Debian installer for use with qemu in an
environment that needed to be DFSG free.
Similarly, I think it would be reasonable for someone to want to provide
entirely free Debian media along with a libre laptop.
If providing an image that includes but does not use non-free components
is acceptable for our users, we could save ourselves a lot of time and
complexity by not repacking sources that include non-dfsg components.
We could just not use those components at least when targeting main for
binaries.
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