* Mike Hommey: > 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.
If the kernel automatically downloaded some binary from the network and executed it, I would consider that unacceptable for a default configuration, too. It's not the mere possibility that counts. I'm against doing this by default (or requiring it for almost any use of a package). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
