Bug#920437: ITP: displaylink -- Proprietary driver for DisplayLink devices
On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 14:21 -0500, Hanno Stock wrote: > Am Fr, 25. Jan 2019, um 17:03, schrieb Ben Hutchings: > > Please consider choosing a more specific package name. Since we > > have > > free drivers for some DisplayLink devices, we should encourage > > users to > > use those where possible. > > Ok, I see. What about displaylink-nonfree ? One could also append to > the long description a hint which package to > use for devices supported by the free drivers. That seems sensible. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm not a reverse psychological virus. Please don't copy me into your signature. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#920437: ITP: displaylink -- Proprietary driver for DisplayLink devices
Am Fr, 25. Jan 2019, um 17:03, schrieb Ben Hutchings: > Please consider choosing a more specific package name. Since we have > free drivers for some DisplayLink devices, we should encourage users to > use those where possible. Ok, I see. What about displaylink-nonfree ? One could also append to the long description a hint which package to use for devices supported by the free drivers.
Bug#920437: ITP: displaylink -- Proprietary driver for DisplayLink devices
On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 14:22 +0100, Hanno Stock wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Hanno Stock > > * Package name: displaylink > Version : 4.4 > Upstream Author : DisplayLink (UK) Ltd. > * URL : https://www.displaylink.com/downloads > * License : proprietary > Programming Lang: binary > Description : Proprietary driver for DisplayLink devices > > This is the proprietary binary component of the driver for DisplayLink > devices. It communicates via libusb with the DisplayLink device and uses > the opensource evdi kernel module for presenting a virtual graphics > device to the system. [...] Please consider choosing a more specific package name. Since we have free drivers for some DisplayLink devices, we should encourage users to use those where possible. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#920437: ITP: displaylink -- Proprietary driver for DisplayLink devices
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hanno Stock * Package name: displaylink Version : 4.4 Upstream Author : DisplayLink (UK) Ltd. * URL : https://www.displaylink.com/downloads * License : proprietary Programming Lang: binary Description : Proprietary driver for DisplayLink devices This is the proprietary binary component of the driver for DisplayLink devices. It communicates via libusb with the DisplayLink device and uses the opensource evdi kernel module for presenting a virtual graphics device to the system. - DisplayLink devices are for example USB based docking stations and USB-attachable secondary screens. Unfortunately newer DisplayLink devices are not supported by libdlo, an open source driver for older DisplayLink devices. However DisplayLink provides an Ubuntu installer for their newer drivers and allows repackaging the binary components for other distributions. According to a DisplayLink employee: "The text of the license was written to ensure the driver can be repacked by other distros and redistribute. As long as the text of license file is replicated, and binaries are redistributed as provided in the .run package (unmodified), and it is still possible to identify what component is what and where it came from, the license terms are met IMO." [1] In order for Debian to support DisplayLink devices it would make sense to package this driver for the non-free component. [1] https://www.displaylink.org/forum/showthread.php?t=64854=license
