On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:42:55PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes: > > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 05:04:54PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow > >> The availability to do this is enough even if there are other > >> (possibly better) ways to do the same. One free driver _in_ Debian and > >> the package should stay in main. > >> > >> But does the cipe-source build or ship the windows driver for use with > >> ndiswraper? I doubt that. > >> > >> Which means you need some software (even if it is free) from outside > >> Debian for ndiswraper. That makes it contrib imho. > > > > Are there any free MSWord files in main ? No ? Then please move > > antiword and similar tools to contrib. > > > > Mike > > The difference is that antiword is a tool for the user. The user will > have doc files to use with antiword, e.g. send by mail. The antiword > program on its own provides the user with the ability to view his/her > word files. It does not depend on the existance of such a file on the > system to provide that service. > > But users don't get drivers send to them for use with ndiswraper. That > is strictly a system/kernel thing. A driver MUST be provided for > ndiswraper to create a network interface for use in the system. As > such I feel that its need for a driver constitutes a dependency. > > But that is just me. Do what you want as long as ndiswraper stays out > of non-free. > > MfG > Goswin Hi Devs, it seems that even before the SC, folks had different catagories for stuff. I'd love to spend some time classifying the wildlife in Debian and devise rules based upon how they are classified. Some of the wildlife include: license text, non-sourcecode documentation, kernel utilites, user utilites.... Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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