Re: Possible draft non-free firmware option with SC change
Ansgar <ansgar@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
I considered doing this, but then I decided against it because I think the
current wording implicitly allows for there being multiple non-free areas.
I know that's not how we're currently reading it, and probably not how it
was intended, but one can interpret the same sentence as saying there is
one or more contrib area and one or more non-free area.
I like that a little better since it avoids having to update a foundation
document for what's essentially bookkeeping. Suppose, for example, that
we want to split out some other bit of non-free in the future for some
non-SC-related reason (contrib or non-free debug symbols or whatever). It
feels weird to have to amend the SC just to add the new name to a list.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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