Rene Engelhard writes: > Package: ndiswrapper > Severity: serious > Tags: sarge, sid > > Hi, > > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:58:56PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > > Apparently the dickhead maintainer of ndiswrapper-source has just gone > > > into his shell and refuses to discuss this problem. > > > > Btw, could anyone explain why ndiswrapper is in main? It's only use > > is to run propritary windows drivers inside the linux kernel, so it's > > a clear fit for contrib. > > ACK.
To play devil's advocate: Why is wine in main? Its only use is to run proprietary windows programs inside the WINE environment, so it's a clear fit for contrib. The main page of the NdisWrapper project has a link to a GPLed NDIS driver, so it seems like the main reason to remove ndiswrapper from Debian is spite. Michael Poole
