On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 09:37:33PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > There are two possibilities for such a proposal: either we keep running > contrib/non-free like we do now but just change the domain names, or we > actually try to eliminate them from the project. The former is a bunch of > work (for people outside the project as well as in) for no real benefit. FWIW, this is precisely what http://www.non-free.org/ is about. > I'm particularly concerned about keeping Debian a viable distribution for > enterprise and large-scale server deployments, where, for better or worse, > a well-integrated way to add non-free firmware is simply mandatory in > practice right now. You seem to view dropping SC §5 as something potentially catastrophic from the technical side, for enterprise and large-scale deployments. But at the same time you acknowledge changing domain names as a way to go about it. Surely if we do that change the catastrophe won't happen then? It'll be just a matter of for how long we can keep the old URLs working---and the answer can very well be "forever". In which case there is not even a need of work on the user side. As any undocumented implemented detail, the amount of deployments using the old URLs will gradually disappear over time (in infinite time, of course). > So I'm not sure this is a good DPL question, as the DPL really isn't > likely to get much of a say about this. The answers to this question (including those from candidates who didn't or won't really answer) speak volumes about candidates' views on broad Free Software philosophy/politics, and where in their opinion Debian should stand within those spectrum. I do realize that those topics are not equally interesting for all voters though. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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