Hi Simon! On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 09:06:38AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > >================== > >We continue to stand by the spirit of the Debian Social Contract §1 >which says: > > Debian will remain 100% free > > We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if a work is > "free" in the document entitled "The Debian Free Software > Guidelines". We promise that the Debian system and all its components > will be free according to these guidelines. We will support people > who create or use both free and non-free works on Debian. We will > never make the system require the use of a non-free component. > >Therefore we will not include any non-free software in Debian, nor in the >main archive or installer/live/cloud or other official images, and will >not enable anything from non-free or contrib by default. > >We also continue to stand by the spirit of the Debian Social Contract §5 >which says: > > Works that do not meet our free software standards > > We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of works that > do not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We have > created "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our archive for these > works. The packages in these areas are not part of the Debian system, > although they have been configured for use with Debian. We encourage > CD manufacturers to read the licenses of the packages in these areas > and determine if they can distribute the packages on their CDs. Thus, > although non-free works are not a part of Debian, we support their > use and provide infrastructure for non-free packages (such as our bug > tracking system and mailing lists). > >Thereby re-inforcing the interpretation that any installer or image with >non-free software on it is not part of the Debian system, but that we >support their use and welcome others to distribute such work. > >==================
This last bit of wording is slightly unclear to me. Should *Debian* be allowed to distribute an installer or image with non-free software on it? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com < liw> everything I know about UK hotels I learned from "Fawlty Towers"
