Bug#383465: Contains obfuscated source code, DFSG violation?
* Robert Millan [ackstorm] (robert.millan@ackstorm.es) [070716 12:21]:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 07:50:51PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> >
> > The nouveau project is deobfuscating the code as they go. Even if their DRI
> > work isn't ready for Lenny, we'll definitely be pulling their deobfuscated
> > code.
>
> Put aside what we do for Lenny, is there any technical problem in terms of
> user support if we move this driver to non-free and let vesa and/or vga be
> the default for nvidia users?
AFAIR, we still prefer this driver way over the "hard non-free"
binary-only driver from NVidia. In other words, given that the project
nouveau is making progress, changes are merged back, and this driver is
better then the binary-only driver, I think keeping the driver in main
is the right decision.
Cheers,
Andi
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