On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 10:59:57AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 05/06/2010 07:22 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > 2) Having the non-free firmware in the regular CD image sets; firmware > > which is not loaded by default, but that can be selectively enabled > > by the user, pretty much as users can now enable "non-free" in > > sources.list to get non-free packages from the "Internet media" (to > > be compared with the "CD media"). > > Sounds like the better option, at least for the firmware which is necessary to > make the network interface work. Everything else could be downloaded later by > showing the user a dialog like 'you need this non-free firmware stuff, which > is > not part of debian, but we have it right here for you... do you want it?'
Personally, I don't think it is good to ship stuff we consider non-free on our official installation media. I would prefer we either decide that some of those/all of those firmware files are fine WRT our guidelines (possibly clarifying those guidelines in the process), or we go the route of the seperate CD set. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
