Re: Need USB camera suggestions

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Greetings,

On 22-Aug-01 Alan Cox wrote:
>> The pwc driver's included in recent 2.4 series kernels, though a
>> binary compression module isn't (yet).
> 
> And never will be. Its non free.

Well, the driver is free, including the decompression module. But the latter
is not Open Source, no. And I don´t think that will be opened up shortly
(read: 1-2 years). However, claiming it´s ¨non free¨ is not true.

> But you can download that seperately from the authors pages

Yups. http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ is the page.

 - Nemosoft

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