On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:01:19PM +0100, Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote: > * Theodore Tso: > > > I'm not ashamed at all; I joined before the 1.1 revision to the Debian > > Social Contract, which I objected to them, and I still object to now. > > If there was a GR which chainged the Debian Social contract which > > relaxed the first clause to only include __software__ running on the > > Host CPU, I would enthusiastically vote for such a measure. > > I think it's not that simple anymore. > > For instance, while I have no particular opinion on firmware, I object > to packages in main which, when run on a web browser, execute > proprietary Javascript blobs (either by shipping them in the package, > or by linking them in some way).
Following the same logic, you should be opposing to packages such as the kernel, that allows to run proprietary ELF blobs. This is ridiculous. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org