On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:50:59PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:15:53 +0100, 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. > > I believe we had this discussion on IRC; basically, there *are* free > (as in speech) ndis drivers out there. Whether they're able to be built > and packaged on a debian system; I don't know.
It's completely irrelevant whether any free drivers exist. ndiswrapper's purpose is to provide an NDIS interface to the Linux kernel, and it accomplishes that purpose without the use of any non-free software. Thus, it is perfectly suitable for main. -- For every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you!
