On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 11:37:20AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > I propose the following amendment to Steve's proposal. > > > THE DEBIAN PROJECT therefore, > > > > 1. reaffirms its dedication to providing a 100% free system to our > > users according to our Social Contract and the DFSG; and > > > > 2. encourages authors of all works to make those works available not > > only under licenses that permit modification, but also in forms that make > > such modifications practical; and > > > > 3. supports the decision of the Release Team to require works such as > > images, video, and fonts to be licensed in compliance with the DFSG without > > requiring source code for these works under DFSG #2; and > > 4. determines that as a special exception to DFSG #2, the source code > for device firmwares contained in the kernel packages will not be > required as long as there are no other technical means to install and > run the Debian system on these devices. > > > Rationale: most of us want to release etch ASAP, and most of us want to > remove the firmwares from the kernel ASAP. This is a way that shouldn't > stop the ongoing work on both of these issues. The wording makes it > clear that as soon as the kernel and d-i are able to use split out > firmwares, the migration will have to be done. This way we won't > discourage the work from Nathanael Nerode and other people who worked > hard so far to remove the non-free blobs, and we won't hold etch > development because of that issue. I second this amendment. Not also that I found sad that the DPL try to kill this GR with his latest mail to debian-announce. The problem is known for a long time. If he wanted to help, it should have been done that before, not a 3 months before the announced date of the release. And also not while proposals are beeing discussed. He just want to be awarded because he found a solution to the problem. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' aurel32@debian.org | aurelien@aurel32.net `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net
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