Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main
On 5 Apr 2006, Raul Miller stated:
> On 4/5/06, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
>> And for what benefit? Just like the FSF started by distributing and
>> build software on non-free systems, putting out software that may
>> initially be more heavily used with non-free input/output is still
>> desirable, since it is a beachhead that can then be exploited for
>> free purposes by someone out there, who may never be exposed to the
>> software in question was its distribution to be severely limited.
>
> Has someone suggested that we should not build or distribute
> ndiswrapper?
In Debian? Yes, I think that is exactly what we are talking
about.
> We've suggested that we not consider it an integral part of our
> free operating system, but that doesn't seem to be what you're
> talking about.
No one ias asking it to be an integral part of Debian (like,
Essential: Yes). We are asking to make it an Optional part of
Debian.
I see this as software that is free (it meets all aspects of
the DFSG) that improves the quality of implmentation of the OS by
allowing user to help themselves in their attempts to make the Debian
OS run on certain hardware with less than stellar free software
support.
I hink that the Quality of implementation would suffer if we
disallow this DFSG-compliant software from being a part of Debian.
manoj
--
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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