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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
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