Re: Intent to package: device3dfx
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 09:04:18PM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> device3dfx is a kernel module to allow user-space applications (quake
> :}) access to 3Dfx cards without needing to be run as root.
>
> This package consists *only* of a GPL'd kernel module. As such it can
> IMHO go into main. It could be argued that you can only use it via the
> Glide libraries, which aren't free at all, and it should therefore go
> into contrib. This point may need discussion.
This is the same problem of KDE: you cannot redistribute GPL code linked
against non GPL code. This has 2 effect:
1) this code is completely non-free (it's impossible to redistribute it)
2) if you produce a package you are violating the copyright.
The upstream authore would can modify the license, but this is possible only
if the upstream author did'nt use ANY kernel code.
>
> Notes:
>
> /dev/3dfx -- needs to be created. If this package is accepted, support
> for it should go into MAKEDEV, as opposed to doing a mknod in the
> postinst (which lintian complains about).
>
> The packaging is based on pcmcia-cs, and I hope it will work with
> make-kpkg in the same way. I don't use make-kpkg, so I haven't
> *really* checked, but "debian/rules kdist" seems to do the right
> thing.
>
> device3dfx, the source package, comes with one binary package,
> device3dfx-source. This consists of docs and
> /usr/src/device3dfx.tar.gz, which then extracts to
> /usr/src/modules/device3dfx/..., which seems right. It can be used to
> generate device3dfx-modules-* packages.
>
> SRH
> --
> Steve Haslam Debian GNU/Linux araqnid@debian.org
> gnome-libs, gnome-core, gnome-control-center, gdm, p3nfs. what, me worry?
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