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Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)



Bug cc dropped.

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 03:14:40AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Wine is something that was written to make the use of Windows binary
> software possible on Linux. 

Yes, and there's plenty of useful, free software compiled as Windows
binaries. Some of which is only available as a Windows binary, such
as TurboCASH.

> It is already possible to use ndiswrapper without having any non-free
> software installed. Granted, it doesn't do much useful that way, 

If you have to differentiate between "able to be used" and "useful",
you don't have a point.

> but a)
> neither the DFSG nor the SC say anything about usefulness, and b) if a
> free library package exists in main which no other free package uses it,
> we don't move the free library package to contrib either.

If it's only useful for non-free software, we should probably consider it.
More likely, it's not useful at all, and we should consider dropping it
entirely. How many libraries do we have in this state?

Cheers,
aj

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