My original mail doesn't seem to have come through, so I'm re-sending. Apologies if this comes through twice.
On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 10:39:57 +0200, Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> said: > As far as I can tell, both Steve's and Gunnar's proposal would make > Debian less of a free software operating system than it is today. > That makes me sad. My preference for an outcome would be along the > following lines. > ================== > We continue to stand by the spirit of the Debian Social Contract §1 > which says: > Debian will remain 100% free > We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if a work is > "free" in the document entitled "The Debian Free Software > Guidelines". We promise that the Debian system and all its components > will be free according to these guidelines. We will support people who > create or use both free and non-free works on Debian. We will never > make the system require the use of a non-free component. > Therefor we will not include any non-free software in Debian, nor in s/Therefor/Therefore > the main archive or installer/live/cloud or other official images, and > will not enable anything from non-free or contrib by default. > We also continue to stand by the spirit of the Debian Social Contract > §5 which says: > Works that do not meet our free software standards > We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of works that > do not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We have created > "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our archive for these works. The > packages in these areas are not part of the Debian system, although > they have been configured for use with Debian. We encourage CD > manufacturers to read the licenses of the packages in these areas and > determine if they can distribute the packages on their CDs. Thus, > although non-free works are not a part of Debian, we support their use > and provide infrastructure for non-free packages (such as our bug > tracking system and mailing lists). > Thereby re-inforcing the interpretation that any installer or image > with non-free software on it is not part of the Debian system, but > that we support their use and welcome others to distribute such work. > ================== > /Simon I believe that this should be on the ballot so: seconded. -- Hubert Chathi <uho...@debian.org> -- https://www.uhoreg.ca/ Jabber: hub...@uhoreg.ca -- Matrix: @uhoreg:matrix.org PGP/GnuPG key: 4096R/F24C F749 6C73 DDB8 DCB8 72DE B2DE 88D3 113A 1368
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