On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 00:52 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:01:28AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Adrian Bunk said: > > > Package: ndiswrapper > > > Version: 0.12+1.0rc2-1 > > > Severity: serious > > > > > > > > > Is there any way how ndiswrapper is currently useful without > > > non-free software? > > > > > > If this is not the case, it has to go to contrib. > > > > This was just recently discussed, and I believe the consensus was that > > there are free drivers, so there is no problem. And frankly, even if > > I didn't know about this and this makes my bug void. > > Where can I find DFSG-free drivers using ndiswrapper? >
I believe the ndiswrapper page itself has links to GPL'd drivers. > > there wasn't a single free driver out there, ndiswrapper's purpose is to > > provide an NDIS interface for the linux kernel. It does this whether or > > not there are drivers available, so it's a non-argument. > >... > > Did Debian change it's mind recently? > > It used to be consensus on debian-legal that software that is currently > unusable without non-free software has to go to contrib. > It's not unusable without non-free software; it will happily load into the kernel and provide an ndis interface in the linux kernel. Please see the various other threads that were on this same topic. -- Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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