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Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware



On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 07:39:21AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 2022-08-19 at 16:23 +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> >> Do we need to update the Debian Social Contract for that?
> >> Specifically paragraph 1, which currently reads
> >> 
> >>      Debian will remain 100% free
> >
> > No. Just like we don't need to update the Debian Social Contract for
> > having https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/: we just ship
> > additional files that might be useful for people having specific
> > hardware.
> 
> I disagree -- what is being proposed here is to replace our current
> DSC-compatible free software installer images with non-free.  That goes
> significantly further than what the spirit of DSC§5 suggests.

It not being replaced; there are just additional bits in there which
help people to actually be able to install Debian on some modern machines.

The guarantee in SC1 that we will never *require* those non-free bits, as writen
out in "We will never make the system require the use of a non-free component."
This GR does not violate this promise.


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tobi's 0.02 €

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