On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:16:05PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * 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).
Forget my message, I was reading "Java blobs" and thought you were talking about the openjdk plugin. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
