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> It's not written in stone that Debian has to be the purest distro of them all. Perhaps not purest, and perhaps not in stone, but in the closest thing to a di
by scbrg 5y ago
> It's not written in stone that Debian has to be the purest distro of them all.
Perhaps not purest, and perhaps not in stone, but in the closest thing to a digital equivalent it's at least written that Debian has to be pure.
The very first bullet of Debian's Social contract is: "Debian will remain 100% free". You could argue that when that changes, it stops being Debian.
https://www.debian.org/social_contract https://www.debian.org/social_contract
- jabl 5y agoWell, Debian the OS, yes. But where do you draw the line? Debian still allows your web browser to execute non-free Javascript that you download from some shady site on the internet. ;) Anyway, for FW one can certainly argue it's not part of the OS, as it's executing in some auxiliary core on the device rather than being part of the OS itself executing on the main CPU's. And further, if that same non-free FW would be stored in ROM or on flash, Debian has no problems with it as long as open source drivers are present in the kernel. So the only problem here is devices that want the driver to provide the FW blob to them upon initialization instead of the FW blob being persistently stored on the device. Not really any meaningful difference from a software freedom perspective either way.