Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware
Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> writes:
> Can you elaborate on how you support including non-free firmware in the
> installer *and* find the quoted paragraphs in conflict?
I believe our Social Contract ideally should change. I would not want to
indiscriminately add more non-free software (even drivers are iffy to me),
but I think it is currently unrealistically restrictive about including
firmware that is required to use most modern hardware without bugs and
other problems. I'm happy to have firmware in a separate archive area so
that people who want to avoid it can, but I personally would rather treat
it differently than non-free, including considering it part of the Debian
system.
One of the things that I like about Debian is that it is not gNewSense and
we take a more practical and less ideologically purist approach to free
software. I would prefer that we move in a direction of even more
pragmatism than we currently have.
To be clear, I do understand that I joined a project with the Social
Contract that it has, and unless we change it, those are the rules I
follow when working on Debian. But I still have my own preferences about
the direction in which I'd like to see the project evolve.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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