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Debian postpones social contract changes

Posted Jul 5, 2004 9:15 UTC (Mon) by calc (guest, #22286)
In reply to: Debian postpones social contract changes by mjr
Parent article: Debian postpones social contract changes

Ripping out non-free firmware has been done for a while in Debian when it
was noticed. Certainly more than a year ago the first firmwares were
removed.

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Posted Jul 5, 2004 14:28 UTC (Mon) by mjr (subscriber, #6979) [Link]

Hm, I gathered from the developer irc channel discussion that the issue is far from resolved, but I might've misunderstood.

Regardless, I also recall that the release manager was of the opinion that this whole thing would be a major hassle. Ah well.