https://linuxactionnews.com/256
On 9/1/22, Luna Jernberg <droidbit...@gmail.com> wrote: > https://youtu.be/csdtAcf5ZMs > > 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/> >> >> >
