On 9/8/22 00:14, Russ Allbery wrote:
With Steve's change and a few other tweaks to try to make this a bit more concise: 5. Works that do not meet our free software standards We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of works that do not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We have created areas in our archive for these works. The packages in these areas are not part of the Debian system, although they have been configured for use with Debian. We encourage distributors of Debian to read the licenses of the packages in these areas and determine if they can distribute the packages on their media. Thus, although non-free works are not a part of Debian, we support their use and provide infrastructure for non-free packages (such as our bug tracking system and mailing lists). The Debian official media may include firmware that is otherwise not part of the Debian system to enable use of Debian with hardware tha requires such firmware.
nit: typo "tha" should be "that"
I do think this sounds more up-to-date, and getting rid of "CDs" does feel like an overdue edit.
Yes.
This drops the "we support their use" statement which I think is a bit confusing; I believe the intention is that we, Debian Developers, support the non-free packages in the sense that we upload them and answer bug reports, but it could also be read as "we endorse their use," which we do not and don't really want to be saying.
Yes.Either sounds good to me. I slightly prefer the latter, for the reason you said.
-- Richard
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