On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 10:48:36AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Between one thing and another I've not been tracking the timeline of this > vote and I'm worried we may be out of time for new ballot options and > possibly extensions. > > (As promised in the previous vote for changing the timing of GRs, I've > been watching the timing closely and the last couple have felt rushed. > When there's a quiet period, I'm considering proposing a small > constitutional amendment to relax the timelines a bit based on that > experience. But we can discuss that separately.) > > If there is time left, though, I'm considering proposing the following > option based on my earlier message, just so that there's something on the > ballot that explicitly modifies the Social Contract to allow for non-free > firmware, in case people want that for clarity. > > I should stress that I'm not involved in this part of Debian directly and > am not a great choice for a proponent, so I'd be happy if someone else > took that over, but it does feel to me like it would be good to have this > explicitly on the ballot. > > Possible wording, which includes the existing option A verbatim: > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This ballot option supersedes the Debian Social Contract (a foundation > document) under point 4.1.5 of the constitution and thus requires a 3:1 > majority. > > The Debian Social Contract is replaced with a new version that is > identical to the current version in all respects except that it adds the > following sentence to the end of point 5: > > The Debian official media may include firmware that is otherwise not > part of the Debian system to enable use of Debian with hardware that > requires such firmware. > > The Debian Project also makes the following statement on an issue of the > day: > > We will include non-free firmware packages from the "non-free-firmware" > section of the Debian archive on our official media (installer images and > live images). The included firmware binaries will normally be enabled by > default where the system determines that they are required, but where > possible we will include ways for users to disable this at boot (boot menu > option, kernel command line etc.). > > When the installer/live system is running we will provide information to > the user about what firmware has been loaded (both free and non-free), and > we will also store that information on the target system such that users > will be able to find it later. Where non-free firmware is found to be > necessary, the target system will also be configured to use the > non-free-firmware component by default in the apt sources.list file. Our > users should receive security updates and important fixes to firmware > binaries just like any other installed software. > > We will publish these images as official Debian media, replacing the > current media sets that do not include non-free firmware packages. > > -- > Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> Seconded.
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