Russ Allbery writes: > 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. Seconded. One suggestion: if we modify the Social Contract then we can as well include "non-free-firmware" explicitly as well, i.e., replace We have created "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our archive for these works. by We have created "contrib", "non-free-firmware" and "non-free" areas in our archive for these works. Ansgar
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