Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)
Am 2006-02-21 15:36:16, schrieb Anthony Towns:
> That's a mistaken view; the purpose of contrib is to give us a place
> to ship free software that we can't ship in Debian proper (ie, main)
> because it would violate "We will never make the system require the use
> of a non-free component" or, historically, "... we will never make the
> system depend on an item of non-free software".
I have read the social contract, developers-reference and much more
documentation to Debian and for me it is clear:
"ndiswraper" does NOT depend on non-free software because Debian support
the creation of FREE software. So "ndiswraper" should be in "main" to
give developers the ability to code such stuff.
Pushing "ndiswraper" into "contrib" prevent such evolution.
> > ndiswrapper doesn't depend (in a control file sense) on stuff in non-free,
>
> The "Depends:" field isn't really that relevant.
Right, because "ndiswraper" can run at any time a FREE driver which
can be written IF many peoples are naoyed about the Win-NDIS and
begin to code one...
And "ndiswraper" should not be in "contrib" because it CAN BE USED
to load "non-free" Win-NDIS driver in Debian.
> Cheers,
> aj
Greetings
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
--
Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/
##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant #####################
Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886
50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi
0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
Reply to: