"The Debian official media may include firmware that is otherwise not part of the Debian system to enable use of Debian with hardware that requires such firmware." The change to the social contract sees the following line appended to point 5 Thus, although non-free works are not a part of Debian, we support their use and provide infrastructure for non-free packages (such as our bug tracking system and mailing lists)." We encourage CD manufacturers to read the licenses of the packages in these areas and determine if they can distribute the packages on their CDs. The packages in these areas are not part of the Debian system, although they have been configured for use with Debian. We have created contrib and non-free areas in our archive for these works. "We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of works that do not conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. "Works that do not meet our free software standards" The proposal, presented by Russ Allbery, sees a change to the Debian Social Contract, specifically a change to point 5 which originally read. Of the six choices presented, choice 5 was selected as the winner. Choice 6: Change SC for non-free firmware in installer, keep both installers.Choice 5: Change SC for non-free firmware in installer, one installer.Choice 4: Installer with non-free software is not part of Debian.Choice 3: Allow presenting non-free installers alongside the free one.Choice 2: Recommend installer containing non-free firmware.Choice 1: Only one installer, including non-free firmware.
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