On 2/27/06, Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/21/06, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1 "open source" windows driver available (can be used with ndiswrapper)
> Well, I couldn't find any trace of "1" ever happening. If it ever > happened, then it's ok. But as far as I know, the Ralink company went > directly to 2 (porting there non-free windows driver to linux, and > then making it free). Can you provide any evidence that 1 ever > happened? You could be right. I was going on second-hand evidence, and it may very well be that the open source drivers that were being ported were really linux drivers for other ralink hardware. Note that we have a more general problem here -- we should not have to find the answer to an open-ended question to determine the suitability of a package for main. If a package requires something else to be installed before it can be used, we shouldn't have to figure out whether or not there exists a suitable free version of that other software -- if it's not in main, we know that this other software hasn't been packaged, and that should be sufficient to push package which requires it be installed into contrib. -- Raul
