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Dealing with the non-free firmware that is increasingly needed to install
Debian has been a hot topic for the
distribution over the past few months. The problem goes back further
still, of course, but Steve McIntyre re-raised the
issue in April, which resulted in a predictable lengthy discussion
thread on the debian-devel mailing list. Now McIntyre has proposed a
general resolution (GR) with the intent of resolving how to give users a way to
install the distribution on their hardware while trying to avoid trampling
on the
“100% free” guarantee in the Debian Social
Contract. Finding the right balance is going to be tricky as is shown
by the multiple GR
options that have been proposed in the discussion.