Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-09 Thread Walter Landry
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-01-09 03:48:49 + Joel Konkle-Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess the meat of my question applies to ndiswrapper http://ndiswrapper.sf.net as well. ndiswrapper itself is GPL, but to work properly, requires the Windows drivers for the

Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-09 Thread Adam McKenna
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 07:42:06AM -0500, Walter Landry wrote: I think it is analogous to Quake. Quake's source is free, but to do anything useful (or fun) requires the shareware wads. So until someone actually writes a free driver that ndiswrapper can use, I would say that it belongs in

Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 07:42:06AM -0500, Walter Landry wrote: I guess the meat of my question applies to ndiswrapper http://ndiswrapper.sf.net as well. ndiswrapper itself is GPL, but to work properly, requires the Windows drivers for the network devices it is trying to

Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:30:59AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: ndiswrapper was created specifically to load windows drivers for network devices that Linux doesn't support yet, so I think it's doubtful that someone would write a free driver for it. They could just write a real Linux driver

Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:48:06PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: Someone might write a free driver for Windows, that this wrapper could run. Yes, someone could. But I doubt someone will. What would be the point? You're asking what the point of Free Software is? The answer doesn't care which

Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-09 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Jan 8, 2004, at 22:48, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I guess the meat of my question applies to ndiswrapper http://ndiswrapper.sf.net as well. ndiswrapper itself is GPL, but to work properly, requires the Windows drivers for the network devices it is trying to configure. Does this somehow

Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-09 Thread Adam McKenna
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:05:13PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:30:59AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: ndiswrapper was created specifically to load windows drivers for network devices that Linux doesn't support yet, so I think it's doubtful that someone would write a

Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-09 Thread Adam McKenna
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 06:34:07PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:48:06PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: Someone might write a free driver for Windows, that this wrapper could run. Yes, someone could. But I doubt someone will. What would be the point? You're

Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-08 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Glenn Maynard wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:12:41PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Can someone tell me the legal status of Linuxant's driverloader software as it relates to packaging for Debian? I believe the software itself, while it needs a license key, is free, although it requires

Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-08 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:12:41PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Can someone tell me the legal status of Linuxant's driverloader software as it relates to packaging for Debian? I believe the software itself, while it needs a license key, is free, although it requires non-free Windows

Re: Packaging Linuxant's driverloader?

2004-01-08 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-01-09 03:48:49 + Joel Konkle-Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess the meat of my question applies to ndiswrapper http://ndiswrapper.sf.net as well. ndiswrapper itself is GPL, but to work properly, requires the Windows drivers for the network devices it is trying to