published General Resolution Results of the Debian project developers, accompanied by bags And maintaining the infrastructure at which question the supply of proprietary firmware as part of official installation images and live assemblies. In the vote, the fifth point “Change the Public Agreement for the supply of non -free firmware on the installer with the provision of unified installation assemblies” won the vote. /A> (Debian Social Contract), which defines the fundamental principles of the project and the obligations of the project by a community.
In the fifth point of the public agreement, in which the requirement for compliance with free software standards is located, it will be added that the official DEBIAN carriers may include firmware that are not part of the Debian system, if necessary to ensure the operation of the distribution on equipment for which such firmware is required for the operation .
The official installation media and the Debian Live-images will include packages from the Non-Free-Firmware section, into which the Non-Free repository components associated with firmware are made.
If there are equipment for which external firmware is required, the use of the necessary proprietary firmware will be included by default. At the same time, for users who prefer only free software, at the loading stage, the possibility of disconnecting the use of non -free firmware will be given.
In addition, the installer or a Live-image will provide information on which type of firmware is loaded. Data on the firmware used will also be saved to the installed system so that the user can receive information about the firmware used later. If the firmware is necessary for equipment after installation in the system is also proposed by default to add non-free-Firmware repository to Sources.list, which will allow you to receive firmware updates with the correction of vulnerabilities and important errors. Images with proprietary firmware will be delivered as official carriers that will replace the previously proposed images without non -free firmware.