Re: Overriding vs Amending vs Position statement
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 07:10:07AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The Debian project believes that shipping NVidia drivers in main is
> consistent with the current DFSG and Social Contract.
>
> If you think there's any serious danger of that passing with a majority,
> I would contend that you're essentially arguing there's such a serious
> disagreement in Debian over this issue that we do not even share the
> same language, terms, and basis for discussion. I don't see that
> pessimism supported by any of the previous votes or by the general
> discussion here.
Would your statement still apply if you replace "NVidia drivers" with
"non-free kernel firmware"? Since I view those as equivalent, and
the latter seems far more dangerous, I do think the pessimism is
warranted.
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