Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> writes: > Can you elaborate on how you support including non-free firmware in the > installer *and* find the quoted paragraphs in conflict?
I believe our Social Contract ideally should change. I would not want to indiscriminately add more non-free software (even drivers are iffy to me), but I think it is currently unrealistically restrictive about including firmware that is required to use most modern hardware without bugs and other problems. I'm happy to have firmware in a separate archive area so that people who want to avoid it can, but I personally would rather treat it differently than non-free, including considering it part of the Debian system. One of the things that I like about Debian is that it is not gNewSense and we take a more practical and less ideologically purist approach to free software. I would prefer that we move in a direction of even more pragmatism than we currently have. To be clear, I do understand that I joined a project with the Social Contract that it has, and unless we change it, those are the rules I follow when working on Debian. But I still have my own preferences about the direction in which I'd like to see the project evolve. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
