On Mon, Oct 27 2008, Robert Millan wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:04:33PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: >> >> I propose the following alternatative to "Option 2" (removes last sentence): > > Or rather, I propose the following alternative which incorporates Manoj's > rewritten #2 (in addition to removing the last sentence in #4): > > Option 2 (allow Lenny to release with propietary firmware) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > 1. We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free software > community (Social Contract #4); > > 2. We acknowledge that there is a lot of progress in the kernel firmware > issue; most of the issues that were outstanding at the time of the > last stable release have been sorted out. However, new issues in the > kernel sources have cropped up fairly recently, and these new issues > have not yet been addressed. > > 3. We assure the community that there will be no regressions in the > progress > made for freedom in the kernel distributed by Debian relative to the > Etch > release in Lenny > > 4. We give priority to the timely release of Lenny over sorting every bit > out; for this reason, we will treat removal of sourceless firmware as a > best-effort process, and deliver firmware in udebs as long as it is > necessary for installation (like all udebs), and firmware included in > the kernel itself as part of Debian Lenny, as long as we are legally > allowed to do so. > > (Since this option overrides the SC, I believe it would require 3:1 majority)
In case there was any doubt, I second this altered proposal as
well.
manoj
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