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Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support
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Csaba Henk <csaba-ml@creo.hu> writes:
> - The huge majority of FUSE based filesystems in common use are GPL
>   licensed anyway, and given this, I don't see the gain of having
>   them backed with a BSD licensed library instead of a LGPL'd one.
>   And they are as fine in ports as ntfs-3g is.

My implicit assumption was that it would be much harder to maintain a
FUSE library in ports, since it is so tightly bound to the FUSE kernel
module.

DES
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