The Debian project announced the results of a vote on whether to allow non-free firmware to be loaded by default. There are six options in total, and the fifth option – “Change SC for non-free firmware in installer, one installer” was selected . SC stands for Social Contract, a basic document of the Debian project, which will add a sentence stating that the project’s official media will contain non-free firmware, which will be loaded and installed by default if the hardware works. The Debian project says that nonfree firmware will be enabled by default if the hardware requires it, and it considers providing both a boot menu option and a kernel command line to allow users to disable nonfree firmware at boot time. Nonfree firmware is allowed to improve accessibility. If blind users need to run the installer in text-to-speech mode, the audio firmware may need to be loaded first.
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