Re: Bug#383465: Contains obfuscated source code, DFSG violation?
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 21:39, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:48:16AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 20:43, David Nusinow wrote:
> > > But what I'd like to do is set it to wishlist and title it "Please
> > > de-obfuscate the nv driver".
> >
> > I'm sure you know that, but isn't that what the "nouveau project"
> > <http://nouveau.freedesktop.org> is all about ? Maybe the nv driver
> > should be marked as problematic and the issue punted until the nouveau
> > driver is ready.
>
> I have yet to look at the sources. Has he started cleaning up the magic
> numbers or is he just reverse-engineering the 3d stuff? Anyway, once the
> project is well off the ground I'm excited to start shipping it.
>From a quick look at the sources he just is REing the 3d stuff. The 2d
part looks like a copy/paste from nv (so I was wrong).
<looks at the wiki>
Apparently the driver should be working at least as well as nv does. It
could easily replace it really soon (to have more exposure) and wait
there until the 3d part is working. But maybe this is better dealt with
the authors themselves.
Xav
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