Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,
> 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? I agree with your enhanced version of MJ Ray's proposal, but ... > ======================================================================== > > 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 hardware for which > no complete functioning free firmware is available, the Debian > installation media images may include selected firmware from > non-free archive, which conforms to all Debian Free Software > Guidelines except guideline 2 (Source Code). > > ======================================================================== ... as Sven pointed out, there are still some corner cases, mostly depending on the method used to get rid of the firmware data (ie, move firmware to non-free vs. move driver to non-free). Once this is all settled, I'll be OK with the proposal. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
