Re: non-free firmware: driver in main or contrib?

[Aurelien Jarno <lists@aurel32.net>]

Marco d'Itri a écrit :
> aurel32@debian.org wrote:
>
> Your driver can be compiled and successfully executed without the
> firmware, so it should go in main because it's free software. As you
> correctly stated, the card needs a firmware, not the device driver.
> The hardware device may not perform useful work until its firmware has
> been loaded, but we distribute the driver and not the device.
On the other side, if it is possible to distribute the firmware in the 
non-free section (I have to ask that to Texas Instrument), the package 
of the driver will have a Depends: or at least a Recommends: on the 
firmware package. In that case it seems that the driver has to go in 
contrib.


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