Sorry it took so long to reply. Frederik Schueler wrote: >So among them, one driver is activated, which I just deactivated in SVN. Glad to hear they're all deactivated. You do know that the source is actually supposed to be DFSG-free as well?
>We will prune these drivers again from the lenny release kernel if there >has not been found a different solution until then. Excellent. >So, I may repeat ANOTHER time so maybe NOW you get the point: help having the >vendors re-release the drivers as GPL with sources, or have the drivers >removed >upstream if they are dead and should not be distributed anymore, I've tried twice to get upstream to remove the dead dgrs, without success -- the first time, they agreed it was a good idea but didn't do it; the second time they just didn't reply. :-/ I had difficulty submitting it in perfect patch form (the firmware-file-removal is a huge, huge hunk which mailing lists don't like); perhaps someone who has a public git repo and could say "pull from here" would have more success? I don't have the time or stamina to nag upstream repeatedly right now (though when my schedule clears in a few years, if it's still there I'll try again). Perhaps they might actually listen to you if *you* requested the removal of dgrs? Since they aren't listening to me. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me out of this fascist nightmare! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
