On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 08:20:06AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:25:44PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > So, the full position statement proposed is: > > ======================================================================== > > > > THE DEBIAN PROJECT: > > 1. reaffirms its dedication to providing a 100% free system to > > our users according to our Social Contract and the DFSG; and > > 2. encourages licensors of all works to make those works > > available not only under licenses that permit modification, but also in > > forms that make such modifications practical; and > > 3. as a special exception to help users who have vital hardware > > without free software drivers yet, the Debian system and official CD > > images may include hardware-support packages from the admin section of > > the non-free archive area which conform to all Debian Free Software > > Guidelines except guideline 2 (Source Code), or an archive section/area > > with equivalent requirements. > > > > > >======================================================================== > > I've tried to consolidate all the little "I would second this if" and > remarks that people made (and I agree to), but that MJ Ray didn't > outright reject. How about something like that? Would in particular MJ > Raj, Sven Luther, Julien Blache agree with this? > > Changes: > > - remove "vital" (already accepted by MJ Ray) > > - don't declare firmware in non-free to be part of the Debian system, > just that installation media may include it > > - don't speak about "non-free drivers", but only _firmware_. This so > that we don't create an unwanted loophole that would permit > ... non-free drivers that run on the "main" CPU in the kernel.
Notice that one way of handling the issue is to move the whole driver needing non-free firmware into non-free. Those may be categorized as non-free drivers (as in drivers in non-free). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
