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The Debian project has begun voting on
changes to its approach to firmware needed to install a working
distribution. The original ballot option described in this article is still there, but this is
Debian so there are several others as well. Some of the additions include
changes to the Debian Social Contract that explicitly allow the shipping of
firmware needed to use Debian on hardware requiring that firmware.