I agree. There is no need to write extensively on nvidia-* packages and both the Flash plugin and Broadcom drivers should be sufficient examples.
~ Andy On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:54 PM, Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 09:50:45PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 08:50:25PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > > > It might be useful, to document these two szenarios, so here we go: > > > > > > > > > > > > <p>Due to restrictions in their licenses source code may or may not > > > > be available for packages in the "contrib" and "non-free" > directories, > > > > which are not formally part of the Debian system. > > > > There are some packages, for which the source code is available, > > > > but not distributable via the Debian archive, so it has to be > pulled > > > > from the site of the origin author or company when installing. > > > > Examples for this case are the <tt>broadcom-sta-*</tt> packages, a > > > > driver for Broadcom wireless adapters. > > > > Moreover to this, the source code might not be available at all > > > > and only a binary "blob" is distributed by the origin company. > > > > A notable example for this is the Adobe Flash plugin in the > > > > <tt>flashplugin-nonfree</tt> package. > > > > > > > > > > > > Comments? > > > > > > But was the mention of nvidia dropped deliberately or accidentally? > > > Is nvidia not one of these binary blob packages? Or was it just a > > > matter of the paragraph being long enough already? > > > > I would vote for only mentioning some cases as examples, without trying > > to be complete. That list would become too extensive IMHO. And always > > lacking some. > > And: as examples I thought the above cases fit better: only few packages > > (respective one), while for nvidia there a masses of packages, and > > I was unable to overlook which ones are of the above category and which > > ones are probably not. > > OK. makes sense. > > -- hendrik > >
