> Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK. What course of action do you advocate?
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 04:12:20PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Modify the social contract to create a new section that would be > distributed alongside main, and put the firmware in there. This is the wrong mailing list for that sort of proposal. Debian-project is probably a better list for that discussion. Or, if you feel that you've sorted out most of the views which are important to other developers, debian-vote. But, please realise that there will be other people focussing on other issues who will interpret what you say in some fashion which is radically different from the way you're thinking about it. And, I think that you'll need to place some attention on slippery slope issues, before a proposal to add a new "component of debian that's not really free" section has any chance at all of getting accepted. Personally, I'm more than a little dubious of the concept -- the role of your proposed "new section" seems to be exactly the same role as "non-free". Except -- rather than being a convenience for some of our web-connected users, you want it to have the operational status as main. -- Raul
