Re: Auditing free and non-free packages

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Andrew J. Barr wrote: Now if they could only figure out some way to do something similar for the Intel Centrino radios... Andrew It's been done - but you have to go to the SourceForge site to get the firmware - which requires you to sign an Intel licence agreement -

Re: Auditing free and non-free packages

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:40:31PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:44:13PM +0100, andy wrote: > >>Hello > >> > >>I have, since installing Etch, been downloading packages with regard for > >>functionality and because I wanted that program, rathe

Re: Auditing free and non-free packages

2007-04-08 Thread andy
Andrew J. Barr wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:44:13PM +0100, andy wrote: Hello I have, since installing Etch, been downloading packages with regard for functionality and because I wanted that program, rather than focusing on whether or not that package was non-fre

Re: Auditing free and non-free packages

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:44:13PM +0100, andy wrote: Hello I have, since installing Etch, been downloading packages with regard for functionality and because I wanted that program, rather than focusing on whether or not that package was non-free or free (with respect

Re: Auditing free and non-free packages

2007-04-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:44:13PM +0100, andy wrote: > Hello > > I have, since installing Etch, been downloading packages with regard for > functionality and because I wanted that program, rather than focusing on > whether or not that package was non-free or free (with respect to the > Debian

Re: Auditing free and non-free packages

2007-04-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:44:13PM +0100, andy wrote: > Hello > > I have, since installing Etch, been downloading packages with regard for > functionality and because I wanted that program, rather than focusing on > whether or not that package was non-free or free (with respect to the > Debian

Auditing free and non-free packages

2007-04-08 Thread andy
Hello I have, since installing Etch, been downloading packages with regard for functionality and because I wanted that program, rather than focusing on whether or not that package was non-free or free (with respect to the Debian commitment to free software). I am curious about the packages I