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Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem



On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 01:09:10AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> It's also completely nonsensical that single drivers must go in contrib,
> but a bundle of drivers may go in main as long as one of those drivers
> does not use non-free firmware.

No more nonsensical than the fact that code within a program that makes
optional use of a non-free library can go in main, while a program consisting
soley of that code must go in contrib.

-- 
Glenn Maynard



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