On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:01:28AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Adrian Bunk said:
> > Package: ndiswrapper
> > Version: 0.12+1.0rc2-1
> > Severity: serious
> >
> >
> > Is there any way how ndiswrapper is currently useful without
> > non-free software?
> >
> > If this is not the case, it has to go to contrib.
>
> This was just recently discussed, and I believe the consensus was that
> there are free drivers, so there is no problem. And frankly, even if
I didn't know about this and this makes my bug void.
Where can I find DFSG-free drivers using ndiswrapper?
> there wasn't a single free driver out there, ndiswrapper's purpose is to
> provide an NDIS interface for the linux kernel. It does this whether or
> not there are drivers available, so it's a non-argument.
>...
Did Debian change it's mind recently?
It used to be consensus on debian-legal that software that is currently
unusable without non-free software has to go to contrib.
And even on linux-kernel where people are much less dogmatic than on
debian-legal (e.g. regarding firmware) it's usually agreed that
interfaces like exported symbols that are not used by any free software
but only by non-free software aren't OK. It was really a surprise for me
if debian-legal would agree that interfaces that are currently only used
by non-free software were suitable for Debian main.
cu
Adrian
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