Thanks for that proposal Russ! While we're at updating the Social Contract's article 5, what about a more invasive cleanup, to reflect reality ?
Le mercredi, 7 septembre 2022, 19.48:36 h CEST Russ Allbery a écrit :
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> This ballot option supersedes the Debian Social Contract (a foundation
> document) under point 4.1.5 of the constitution and thus requires a 3:1
> majority.
Instead of this:
> The Debian Social Contract is replaced with a new version that is
> identical to the current version in all respects except that it adds the
> following sentence to the end of point 5:
>
> The Debian official media may include firmware that is otherwise not
> part of the Debian system to enable use of Debian with hardware that
> requires such firmware.
What about this (which adds the non-free-firmware area, replaces
"CD manufacturers" with "installation media providers", replaces "on their CD"
with "on their installation media":
> The Debian Social Contract is replaced with a new version that is
> identical to the current version in all respects except that the point 5
> reads as follows:
>
> 5. 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", "non-free" and "non-free-firmware" 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 installation media providers to read the licenses of the
> packages in these areas and determine if they can distribute the
> packages on their installation medias. 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). The Debian official media may include firmware that is otherwise
> not part of the Debian system to enable use of Debian with hardware tha
> requires such firmware.
The rest of your proposed draft reads excellent to me.
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