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Re: [gNewSense-users] Jockey - Possible freedom bug


From: Ted Smith
Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] Jockey - Possible freedom bug
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:19:04 -0400

On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 09:36 -1000, Tor at Shared Genius wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> Jockey seems to be in a similar state as ndiswrapper in terms of freedom
> - -- free itself, but meant for use with non-free software[1].  This may,
> however, have been checked already, as this is a recent new package.
> 
> Tor
> 
> 
> [1]Jockey (jockey-common, with jockey-gtk and jockey-kde as frontends)
> according to aptitude:
> 
> "Jockey provides a user interface for configuring third-party drivers,
> such as the Nvidia and ATI fglrx X.org and various LAN kernel modules"
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Is this an issue with all of the non-free drivers removed? Jockey can
(could?) also be used to chose between free drivers, AFAIU. It doesn't
download any of the drivers on its own, it just works with packages
already in the archive, so if there's no non-free software there, it
can't get any.

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