Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hanno Stock <opensou...@hanno-stock.de>
* Package name : displaylink Version : 4.4 Upstream Author : DisplayLink (UK) Ltd. * URL : https://www.displaylink.com/downloads * License : proprietary Programming Lang: binary Description : Proprietary driver for DisplayLink devices This is the proprietary binary component of the driver for DisplayLink devices. It communicates via libusb with the DisplayLink device and uses the opensource evdi kernel module for presenting a virtual graphics device to the system. ----- DisplayLink devices are for example USB based docking stations and USB-attachable secondary screens. Unfortunately newer DisplayLink devices are not supported by libdlo, an open source driver for older DisplayLink devices. However DisplayLink provides an Ubuntu installer for their newer drivers and allows repackaging the binary components for other distributions. According to a DisplayLink employee: "The text of the license was written to ensure the driver can be repacked by other distros and redistribute. As long as the text of license file is replicated, and binaries are redistributed as provided in the .run package (unmodified), and it is still possible to identify what component is what and where it came from, the license terms are met IMO." [1] In order for Debian to support DisplayLink devices it would make sense to package this driver for the non-free component. [1] https://www.displaylink.org/forum/showthread.php?t=64854&highlight=license
