Re: Draft vote on constitutional issues
On 2009-05-13, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
> ,----
>| 5. Works that do not meet our free software standards
>|
>| We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of works
>| that do not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We
>| have created "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our archive for
>| these works.
> `----
> As I understand it, we, as a project, have acceoted that there
> is tension between the needs of our users, and the dictates of free
> software; and the solution we have come up with is called "contrib" and
> "non-free" areas in our archive.
> Isn't that perfectly clear?
Sure, but why the heck was the discussion if we should delay the release
instead of moving the kernel to non-free because it's tainted with few
binary blobs?
Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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