Bug#383465: Contains obfuscated source code, DFSG violation?
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 12:14:14PM +0200, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote:
> 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?
>
> Given that the driver is 2D-only anyway, I don't see it as a big loss. With
> the vesa option, at least the non-free bits are moved down to firmware, where
> it's no longer our responsability (read: if the driver is faulty and we can't
> fix it, it would be faulty on all platforms, and I find that highly unlikely
> since the card wouldn't work on pristine win32 either).
The nv driver does provide additional features over the vesa driver, most
notably the recent inclusion of randr 1.2 support. Because of this, I'd
rather not push people even further towards the proprietary driver.
- David Nusinow
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