Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main
On 3/2/06, Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:
> We're getting into "if a tree fell in a forest..." territory here though.
In that context the question we're trying to resolve is analogous to:
is this a forest, or a parking lot?
Getting back to my own views on this:
I don't think a decision to put ndiswrapper in main or contrib
is going to violate the social contract. The way I read the social
contract, both can be a valid decision. I'm more interested in
making the best decision (and the social contract is one of the
things I'm using to judge what "best" means).
And I can be convinced that we should temporarily leave ndiswrapper
in main for hypothetical uses.
I think that the long-term decision about where ndiswrapper
belongs should be consistent with what people do with it.
Contrib is for free software, I don't think moving any free software
to contrib is "bad". It's just a signal to our users that they are
expected to install non-free software if they want to make good use
of the package. I think it's perfectly reasonable to put dosemu and
wine in contrib for that reason.
I also think it's perfectly reasonable to leave dosemu and wine
in main if many people find them useful without having to install
non-free software.
I do NOT think that this is any sort of alarming issue requiring
immediate action -- I'm far, far more concerned about the long-term
value of these decisions than I am about what things look like next
month.
Does this make sense?
--
Raul
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