Mainly about whether or not to promote and advertise non-free software. As you probably know the FSF and the GNU project have a very strong opinion about that. Debian takes the approach that offering and supporting a non-free package archive isn't a real problem. Some people disagree. (Just compare the very poor support for most of the free software packages written in the java-language to work out of the box with free VMs compared to other distributions who strongly supports only using Free Software. e.g. Red Hat with rhug, naoko and native-eclipse.)
There's that issue (on which I agree with the FSF) but there's also a major disagreement (on which I agree with Debian) about the GNU Free Documentation License, which doesn't meet Debian's guidelines for free licenses. I'm not sure of the FSF's exact position on this, but it's either "Debian are wrong and the GFDL *does* meet their guidelines" or "Debian's guidelines are too strict and should be modified so that the GFDL can meet them". Debian's position is that the GFDL really does have major problems and the guidelines are doing their job by refusing it.
Stuart.
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