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On 8/31/22, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > 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/> > >
