On 2/20/06, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I requested that ndiswrapper and ndiswrapper-modules-i386 be moved to contrib.
This proposal is clear enough. > My reasons are: > > - The sole purpose of these packages is allowing the use of non-free Windows > drivers. > > - There are no free Windows drivers for this interface, except a port of a > Linux driver to Windows (cipe), which is only used on native Windows > platform (since it is pointless to emulate it from Linux, where the original > cipe is already available). I'm not sure I agree with this. When I look at the list of drivers that ndiswrapper supports http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List I see several that seem to be open source. You've asserted that none of these drivers satisfy the DFSG, but I think we would need more than an assertion on this issue. As a specific counter example, consider http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page which is a project porting a windows driver to linux. This port appears to be possible because the windows driver was made available under a free license. -- Raul