MJ Ray wrote: > 3. as a special exception to help users who have vital hardware > without free software drivers yet, the Debian system and official CD > images may include hardware-support packages from the admin section of > the non-free archive area which conform to all Debian Free Software > Guidelines except guideline 2 (Source Code), or an archive section/area > with equivalent requirements. This is seriously flawed: - It ignores all other installation media supported by debian (floppies, netboot, hd-media, dvd, etc). - It says that certian packages from non-free are part of the "Debian system", which is a self-contradicting statement. - It has this strange thing about only stuff from the non-free admin section, which is just totally weird. If we drop the useless sections for debtags, or divide a section, or decide to put stuff in some other section, it magically becomes not a part of Debian? - It talks about non-free _drivers_, which have not been a topic of any debate. No one has suggested including non-free kernel drivers on Debian installation media or supporting them in the installer, and I am confident it will never happen, for many reasons. -- see shy jo
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