Bug#602358: ITP: rtl8192ce-dkms -- Realtek RTL8192CE driver in DKMS format.

[Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu@lexical.tw>]

2010/11/5 Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) <grandpaul@gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a reference, the package is already in mentors and waiting for
> sponsoring.
> http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=rtl8192ce-dkms
>
> I roughly looking into the source package and found
> 1. firmware/RTL8192CE/*.bin is not free software.
>   The license is in firmware/RTL8192CE/Realtek-Firmware-License.txt
>   So this package cannot be in main.
> 2. HAL/rtl8192/rtl8192c/r8192C_hwimg.c
>   It's under GPL, but it's array of bytes.
>
> Regards,
> Paul
>

For 2., just FYI, there is a precedent of removing that embedded
firmware fof r8192su in debian kernel package. Both drivers should be
much the same.