On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 09:04:18PM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote: > Hi people, > > device3dfx is a kernel module to allow user-space applications (quake > :}) access to 3Dfx cards without needing to be run as root. > > This package consists *only* of a GPL'd kernel module. As such it can > IMHO go into main. It could be argued that you can only use it via the > Glide libraries, which aren't free at all, and it should therefore go > into contrib. This point may need discussion.
This is the same problem of KDE: you cannot redistribute GPL code linked against non GPL code. This has 2 effect: 1) this code is completely non-free (it's impossible to redistribute it) 2) if you produce a package you are violating the copyright. The upstream authore would can modify the license, but this is possible only if the upstream author did'nt use ANY kernel code. > > Notes: > > /dev/3dfx -- needs to be created. If this package is accepted, support > for it should go into MAKEDEV, as opposed to doing a mknod in the > postinst (which lintian complains about). > > The packaging is based on pcmcia-cs, and I hope it will work with > make-kpkg in the same way. I don't use make-kpkg, so I haven't > *really* checked, but "debian/rules kdist" seems to do the right > thing. > > device3dfx, the source package, comes with one binary package, > device3dfx-source. This consists of docs and > /usr/src/device3dfx.tar.gz, which then extracts to > /usr/src/modules/device3dfx/..., which seems right. It can be used to > generate device3dfx-modules-* packages. > > SRH > -- > Steve Haslam Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] > gnome-libs, gnome-core, gnome-control-center, gdm, p3nfs. what, me worry? -- Francesco Tapparo [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU fanatic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
