>>>>> "Bas" == Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> writes:
Bas> Everyone seems to mention firmware; I don't hear anyone saying we really
Bas> need to support games with non-free game data, or shareware programs.
Bas> And I agree.
Bas> So to the candidates: can you please let us know whether you would be in
Bas> favor of restricting non-free, so that it will only contain things that
Bas> are required for making hardware work, and for which there is no fully
Bas> functional free alternative? If not, do you think restricting it on
Bas> other grounds is a good idea? If so, which criteria would you
Bas> suggest?
We also have documentation in non-free. Documentation of Free
Software. I don't think it would be a good idea to keep non-free
firmware for closed hardware, but throw out documentation for free
software, even it if fails to meet the DFSG.
Having sub-categories on the other hand...
Bas> This is also related to Paul's point:
Bas> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 02:16:09PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
>> Add an extra component that d-i could add to sources.list when
>> non-free firmware is needed, instead of adding all of non-free.
>>
>> Likewise for drivers, GNU documentation, the web, tools for external
>> APIs and other common categories of non-free things.
Bas> (Aside: I like all the ideas in Paul's mail, but this one is relevant
Bas> here.)
Bas> Would you be in favor of such categories of non-free, where we can
Bas> perhaps include some of them (firmware) by default on installation
Bas> media?
This would be useful, but I still wouldn't enable any such category by
default. D-i could tell the user they may need some of those
repositories, but in the end, adding them should be a conscious choice
From the user's part.
But that - again - wouldn't bring us any closer to dropping SC §5, yet,
would complicate a number of things, for - in my opinion - little
gain. I'd support such an initiative, if the relevant parties are all
for it, but I wouldn't actively push for an implementation.
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