Bug#368857: [Linux-wlan-ng-devel] Bug#368857: linux-wlan-ng-firmware: Should be in contrib

[Dylan Thurston]

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 04:30:04PM +0200, Enrico Tassi wrote:
> The driver and the orig.tgz is DFSG clean. It works with no firmware on
> most adapters.

Yes.

> We removed from the orig.tgz the firmware files (included in the
> upstream tgz, a project founded by the chip/firmware producer IIRC)
> since there was no license saying: "yes, you can redistribute these
> files".

Good, right move.

> This package includes a 10 lines shell script that uses svn to checkout
> the firmware files from the upstream svn repository. For convenience we
> put this shell script in the same source package (actually in the diff.gz).

This seems to me to fit the definition of contrib material.

> This driver does not need the maybe-non-free stuff, but some users may
> be interested in using the firmware files. We could split the source
> package in two, one for main and one for contrib, but since I'm not sure
> this borderline situation is a real policy violation, I've not done it
> jet.

Having the package for this script in main seems like a clear
violation to me, but it's less clear to me that the source package
needs to be split.  But since you wrote the script anyway, it doesn't
seem like it's much extra work to split.

> In case it is, we will split. But I'm not that sure that this is a clear
> policy violation. This is not a wrapper package, nor a package that
> depends on a non free external software.

What makes this something other than a wrapper package?  What kind of
package are you looking for here:

> Any idea if a similar package exists in main/contrib?

?

Peace,
	Dylan Thurston
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