Bug#383481: nvidiafb contains obfuscated source code, DFSG violation?
severity 383481 important
thanks
When Kyle cloned this bug, his comment was:
> Wow. Looks a lot like copying register bank settings. Much like
> the drivers listed in Bug#383403.
I don't believe there's any prevailing sentiment that the DFSG requires
non-numeric "source" in the case of register settings being changed; indeed,
various discussions on debian-vote and the like have explicitly acknowledged
that in cases when we *know* we're dealing with registers rather than code
compiled for an embedded processor, no source code is needed. I'm going to
go out on a limb then and downgrade this bug; it is arguably still a bug
since there is room for improvement to the source, but it's not an RC bug.
Thanks,
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