I demand that Matthew Garrett may or may not have written... [snip] > xine should certainly remain within main - it's useful without any non-free > software.
Agreed. (Presumably, you mean libxine, since it's that, not any of the front ends [1] which actually does the dlopen()ing of non-free code.) > But then compare to, say, kernel-patch-2.6-bluez - all the devices that > this code will work with have non-free firmware, though only one of them > requires it to be loaded from userspace. Using the kernel firmware loader code, presumably... > Main or contrib? AIUI, main. I'd only say contrib if *all* of the hardware with which it works requires a firmware upload in order to be useful. [1] Go on, use gxine. ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk Say NO to UK ID cards | http://www.no2id.net/ Don't let your superiors know you're superior to them.