On Mon, Oct 27 2008, Robert Millan wrote:
> Option 2 (allow Lenny to release with propietary firmware)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software
> community (Social Contract #4);
>
> 2. We acknowledge that there is a lot of progress in the kernel firmware
> issue; however, it is not yet finally sorted out;
>
> 3. We assure the community that there will be no regressions in the progress
> made for freedom in the kernel distributed by Debian relative to the Etch
> release in Lenny
>
> 4. We give priority to the timely release of Lenny over sorting every bit
> out; for this reason, we will treat removal of sourceless firmware as a
> best-effort process, and deliver firmware in udebs as long as it is
> necessary for installation (like all udebs), and firmware included in
> the kernel itself as part of Debian Lenny, as long as we are legally
> allowed to do so, and the firmware is distributed upstream under a
> license that complies with the DFSG.
>
> (Since this option overrides the SC, I believe it would require 3:1 majority)
While I have seconded this proposal, how about a change in
wording:
,----
| 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software
| community (Social Contract #4);
|
| 2. We acknowledge that there is a lot of progress in the kernel firmware
| issue; most of the issues that were outstanding at the time of the
| last stable release have been sorted out. However, new issues in the
| kernel sources have cropped up fairly recently, and these new issues
| have not yet been addressed.
|
| 3. We assure the community that there will be no regressions in the
| progress made for freedom in the kernel distributed by Debian
| relative to the Etch release in Lenny
|
| 4. We give priority to the timely release of Lenny over sorting every
| bit out; for this reason, we will treat removal of sourceless
| firmware as a best-effort process, and deliver firmware in udebs as
| long as it is necessary for installation (like all udebs), and
| firmware included in the kernel itself as part of Debian Lenny, as
| long as we are legally allowed to do so, and the firmware is
| distributed upstream under a license that complies with the DFSG.
`----
The changes are just to item 2., which is expanded to explain a
little more about the progress we actually made in the kernel, and also
to explain these are new issues (not something we have been ignoring
for years).
I would like to propose this as a formal amendment to the
proposal, and hope it would be acceptable to the proposer.
manoj
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