Bug#383465: Contains obfuscated source code, DFSG violation?
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 07:50:51PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
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> The nouveau project is deobfuscating the code as they go. Even if their DRI
> work isn't ready for Lenny, we'll definitely be pulling their deobfuscated
> code.
Put aside what we do for Lenny, is there any technical problem in terms of
user support if we move this driver to non-free and let vesa and/or vga be
the default for nvidia users?
Given that the driver is 2D-only anyway, I don't see it as a big loss. With
the vesa option, at least the non-free bits are moved down to firmware, where
it's no longer our responsability (read: if the driver is faulty and we can't
fix it, it would be faulty on all platforms, and I find that highly unlikely
since the card wouldn't work on pristine win32 either).
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Robert Millan
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