On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 07:42:06AM -0500, Walter Landry wrote: > I think it is analogous to Quake. Quake's source is free, but to do > anything useful (or fun) requires the shareware wads. So until > someone actually writes a free driver that ndiswrapper can use, I > would say that it belongs in contrib.
ndiswrapper was created specifically to load windows drivers for network devices that Linux doesn't support yet, so I think it's doubtful that someone would write a free driver for it. They could just write a real Linux driver instead. --Adam
