Le samedi 11 décembre 2004 à 11:44 -0800, Brian Nelson a écrit : > > For a single package that won't work without the binary blob, that's a > > good policy. > > It's a completely inconsistent and arbitrary policy. > > Virtually *all* device drivers in existance require a binary blob to > work. It's up to the manufacturer to provide the binary blob to the > user when they purchase the device. Some devices have the blob on the > hardware itself; for others, the manufactures ship it on CD or make it > downloadable from a website. Some manufactures allow us to distribute > it; others don't. We should not care what they do. That's up to the > manufacturer's and the users of their hardware to work out. We shouldn't care about how the hardware actually works. The question is only about what we distribute. If we distribute a package that cannot do anything without a non-free part which cannot be in Debian, it should go in contrib. If we distribute a package that mostly works, but provides added functionality when some non-free stuff is installed (e.g. read realplayer or WMV9 files), it can go into main. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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