[ObRC: 343781] On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:16:23AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > How many have ever used wine to run Free Software? I have. FWIW. I've also used wine in the process of developing and testing non-free software. I think that's a valid rationale for keeping wine in main; we don't require that people demonstrate word processors being used to create free documents before we say they can go in main, because using them to create *non*-free documents is a valid use case, and the Social Contract only talks about whether we *depend* on non-free stuff -- not whether the user chooses to use the program for non-free stuff. The same reasoning potentially applies to ndiswrapper, but I don't think it makes sense to base this on a hypothetical. If people *are* using ndiswrapper for developing drivers -- free or non-free -- then ok. If we're just saying it *could* be used that way, then this is rationalization. I know ndiswrapper wouldn't be useful to me if I didn't have a non-free Windows driver to go with it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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