Holger Levsen, on 2022-09-14: > Proposal F > > 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. > > 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. > > The Debian Project also makes the following statement on an issue of the day: > > We will include non-free firmware packages from the "non-free-firmware" > section of the Debian archive on our official media (installer images and > live images). The included firmware binaries will normally be enabled by > default where the system determines that they are required, but where > possible we will include ways for users to disable this at boot (boot menu > option, kernel command line etc.). > > When the installer/live system is running we will provide information to the > user about what firmware has been loaded (both free and non-free), and we > will also store that information on the target system such that users will be > able to find it later. Where non-free firmware is found to be necessary, the > target system will also be configured to use the non-free-firmware component > by default in the apt sources.list file. Our users should receive security > updates and important fixes to firmware binaries just like any other > installed software. > > We will publish these images as official Debian media, alongside the current > media sets that do not include non-free firmware packages.
Seconded. Have a nice day, :) -- .''`. Étienne Mollier <emoll...@debian.org> : :' : gpg: 8f91 b227 c7d6 f2b1 948c 8236 793c f67e 8f0d 11da `. `' sent from /dev/pts/4, please excuse my verbosity `- on air: Rick Wakeman - Preludes To A Millennium
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