[$] Debian to vote on its firmware path

Dealing with the non-free firmware that is increasingly needed to installDebian has been a hot topic for thedistribution 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 discussionthread on the debian-devel mailing list. Now McIntyre has proposed ageneral resolution (GR) with the intent of resolving how to give users a way toinstall the distribution on their hardware while trying to avoid tramplingon the "100% free" guarantee in the Debian SocialContract. Finding the right balance is going to be tricky as is shownby the multiple GR options that have been proposed in the discussion.