Re: Reconsidering Debian’s Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware - A Call for Discussion
On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 05:31:02PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
My hope is that the sentiments
towards fully free installer images will change in the Debian project
and that they eventually may be official again.
I don't see sentiments towards fully free isntaller images. There is
just nobody who wants to build them. I THINK that they might become
official some day if somebody steps up, does the work and shows that
they are willing to do that for at least one release cycle.
Until nobody is there who is willing to do the work, it is moot to
discuss whether those images could be official or not. If they don't
exist, they won't be official. Easy.
I still haven't heard arguments why people refuse to use an installer
that comes with non-free firmware, asks whether this firmware should be
used, and if answered "no", none of this non-free firmware ends up in
the installed system. The resulting system is free regardless whether
there was non-free firmware on the installation images.
Greetings
Marc
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