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[Chris Curran]

If I may correct a misconception... The SBIG driver is not proprietary. 
It's distributed under the GPL. The SBIG Universal Library is what's not 
(currently) GPL and could rightly be called "proprietary". It took me 
close to a year to get SBIG to GPL the driver. I suspect the rest will 
come in time...

BTW: I do not speak for SBIG. I am not an employee of SBIG. I do their 
Linux development, and in exchange they GPL anything I do. This is the 
part that took so long. They just couldn't understand why anyone would 
work for "free"...

cheers,
Chris Curran

> We're already using GHNS fro data that Debian considers "not Free 
> enough", so no, there's no problem with making a proprietary driver 
> available.  Of course, we need to make it very clear that the download 
> is proprietary and closed, so that the user can decide whether they 
> could sleep at night, if they were to taint their system in this way ;)
>
> Jason
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