On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 01:01:56AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > I think the debian-reference can mention non-free, but should take > > good care of clarifying the risks that the users take in picking > > software from there (lack of freedom and, more practically, lack of > > support from Debian, as we can't support stuff for which we don't > > have the source code properly). Osamu: would you agree with that? > > Yes. I also re-thought about the whole thing again. One of the problem > was that the section title had "non-free hardware ...". This made the > tone and impression quite skewed. Of course, my initial intent was > helping people looking for non-free firmware etc. But I did not wish to > encourage non-free software. […] > Please read them after next update cycle within few hours or so since I > added some changes. If you have suggestion, let me know.
Many thanks for your work, Osamu! I went through the new text and I agree that it implements the ideas we discussed in this bug report. As I minor communication nitpick, I'd personally just add a couple more things to the "100% free" pages: 1/ that we _recommend_ running only free software from main (right now there is an _explanation_ of the drawbacks of using contrib/non-free, which should be convincing enough, but an explicit recommendation wouldn't hurt either), and 2/ that by default only software from main is installed to respect user freedoms. But as I said, that's only a minor nitpick. Beside that, I think this is great progress, thanks! -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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