Editing slip:
Justin B Rye wrote:
> Due to restrictions in their licenses, source code may or may not
> be available for packages in the "contrib" and "non-free" areas,
> which are not formally part of the Debian system. In some cases
> only sourceless "binary blobs" can be distributed (see for instance
> firmware-misc-nonfree); in others cases the license prohibits the
in other cases
> distribution of prebuilt binaries, but does allow packages of
> source code which users can compile locally (see broadcom-sta-dkms).
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JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
