Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main
Raul Miller writes ("Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main"):
> It looks to me as if the sequence of events was:
>
> 1 "open source" windows driver available (can be used with ndiswrapper)
> 2 someone ports windows driver to linux
> 3 linux driver available
>
> These events are sequential, and event 3 does not erase event 1.
Was the open source windows driver ever available as a Debian
package ? It seems clear to me that anything which requires you to
install non-Debian stuff on your machine belongs in contrib, even if
the reason for the dependency being non-Debian is not non-freeness.
Ian.
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