Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >If it comes down to "the driver, on its own, would not be acceptable for >main because it is not functional; but as a practical matter, we allow >it aggregated with the rest of the kernel because splitting individual >drivers into contrib is a pain for everyone involved and not worth the >theoretical benefits", I can live with that.
Yes, yes! Let me say that this is precisely what I think. >"contrib" exists for software which is free but fails SC#1, "we will never >make the system depend on an item of non-free software". Moving something >from contrib to main that does, in fact, depend on such an item is a pretty >basic violation of Debian's principles. Suppose the thing being moved is not a vital part of the system. Then, although the item being moved depends on non-free software, does the *system* really depend on it? Then it pretty much comes down to what you said above. :-) -- This space intentionally left blank.
