On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:40:26AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > Because it's free software that processes asm input, and there is a > significant > amount of useful, free i386 asm that makes nasm necessary ? > > I'll ask again: Is the purpose of ndiswrapper running non-free drivers? If > it > isn't, show me a free, non-toy, non-POC driver that would prove otherwise.
This is beside the point. IMHO, the main purpose of contrib is to avoid shipping things on CD that depend on programs in non-free. It is not a section that we put programs in in order to 'punish' them for depending on non-free code. ndiswrapper doesn't depend (in a control file sense) on stuff in non-free, so there's no reason it can't go in main. In fact, since it would be tremendously useful to be able to activate wireless ethernet devices with non-free drivers (from floppy/cd) during the install process, I'd say that it makes even more sense for ndiswrapper to go into main (and maybe even into base). --Adam -- Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
