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Bug#920437: ITP: displaylink -- Proprietary driver for DisplayLink devices



On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 14:22 +0100, Hanno Stock wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Hanno Stock <opensource@hanno-stock.de>
> 
> * Package name    : displaylink
>   Version         : 4.4
>   Upstream Author : DisplayLink (UK) Ltd.
> * URL             : https://www.displaylink.com/downloads
> * License         : proprietary
>   Programming Lang: binary
>   Description     : Proprietary driver for DisplayLink devices
> 
> This is the proprietary binary component of the driver for DisplayLink
> devices. It communicates via libusb with the DisplayLink device and uses
> the opensource evdi kernel module for presenting a virtual graphics
> device to the system.
[...]

Please consider choosing a more specific package name.  Since we have
free drivers for some DisplayLink devices, we should encourage users to
use those where possible.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Always try to do things in chronological order;
it's less confusing that way.


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