Re: Changing how we handle non-free firmware
https://linuxactionnews.com/256
On 9/1/22, Luna Jernberg <droidbittin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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