On Sat, 29 Aug 2015, Philipp Kern wrote: > Having been a bit late I didn't fit into the room. I'm still in favor to > have a vote on this. I'm personally unconvinced by the argument that it's > "ok" for the hardware to use firmware blobs as long as you don't load them > from within Debian. (Or, as the FSF puts it, as long as it's stored in a > ROM.) The vote might still fail to achieve supermajority requirements, but > at least we would have a clear statement that the Debian project is still > committed to one way or another. Some of the vote results had been > pragmatic.
+1 I think it would be useful to have a clearer idea of the whole project. To me having the non-free firmware in the official image is not a problem as long as we don't allow them to be loaded without an explicit confirmation of the user. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/
