Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 16:48:28 +0100 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any users of matcd(4), mcd(4), or scd(4)? Message-ID: <200210071548.g97FmTih015257@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <20021007141449.GB7485@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> ; from Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> "Mon, 07 Oct 2002 10:14:49 EDT." References: <20021007141449.GB7485@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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> I can appreciate matcd being dropped for 5.0 on pragmatic grounds, but > it would have been nice to have it ride out the rest of 4.x, given that > it actually works right now. (As I understand it, it's the adoption > of GEOM that signalled the death knell of these old drivers, but GEOM > is a 5.x feature that wouldn't be MFC'd back to 4.x...) Matcd was dropped because it had an unfriendly license. One that was impossible to comply with legally. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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