Re: Proposal - Amendment - allow hardware support from non-free into the debian system
Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> wrote:
Hi,
> I've tried to consolidate all the little "I would second this if" and
> remarks that people made (and I agree to), but that MJ Ray didn't
> outright reject. How about something like that? Would in particular MJ
> Raj, Sven Luther, Julien Blache agree with this?
I agree with your enhanced version of MJ Ray's proposal, but ...
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>
> THE DEBIAN PROJECT:
>
> 1. reaffirms its dedication to providing a 100% free system to
> our users according to our Social Contract and the DFSG; and
>
> 2. encourages licensors 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. as a special exception to help users who have hardware for which
> no complete functioning free firmware is available, the Debian
> installation media images may include selected firmware from
> non-free archive, which conforms to all Debian Free Software
> Guidelines except guideline 2 (Source Code).
>
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... as Sven pointed out, there are still some corner cases, mostly
depending on the method used to get rid of the firmware data (ie, move
firmware to non-free vs. move driver to non-free).
Once this is all settled, I'll be OK with the proposal.
JB.
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