Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware
https://youtu.be/csdtAcf5ZMs
On 8/31/22, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> 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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