On Mon, 2004-11-10 at 10:27 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I think it's a question of what "dependence" means for contrib. If the > >driver absolutely _depends_ on using the non-free firmware, it should be > >in contrib. If the non-free firmware is optional, it should go into > >main. > Again, please explain which part of the policy defines this criteria. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-contrib > >Of course, there's shades of gray, here. If all the driver does is emit > >a message CAN'T FIND NON-FREE FIRMWARE, ABORTING without the firmware, > >it's hard to say that it doesn't depend on the firmware. But if the > This applies to almost every driver in the Linux kernel. Are you ready > to move most of the kernel to non-free too? I'd probably dispute whether it's _every_ driver in the kernel, and it's not my decision, but as I understand it that's exactly what we're doing. ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou <evan@debian.org>
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