On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 03:00:26PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: >hi, > >I'm looking seconds for this new proposal below, which is like >proposal E plus *also* offering free installer image. > >Rationale: we should keep producing fully freely distributable >Debian installer images, for those cases were some included non-free >stuff else might limit distribution, eg to Iran or Cuba etc or >by imposing other restrictions...! > > >----------------------------------------------------- >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. > >------------------------------------------------------- > >(This is exactly "Proposal E" as found on >https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003 >now, except that in the very last sentence the word "replacing" has >been replaced with "alongside".)
Seconded. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] “Changing random stuff until your program works is bad coding practice, but if you do it fast enough it’s Machine Learning.” -- https://twitter.com/manisha72617183
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