Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 13:00:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Sujal Patel <smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu> To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tasd 3.5 Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960423125539.2828K-100000@xi.dorm.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199604231652.JAA21531@precipice.shockwave.com>
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On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Paul Traina wrote: > We don't own TASD and you shouldn't make changes as if you think you do own it. > > I'm really sick and tired of seeing people hack the living shit out of 3rd > party > code and then it becomes unmaintainable when that 3rd party makes changes. About a month ago we hashed this out on -hackers. TASD is the last version of VoxWare/TASD/USS that we will be integrating into FreeBSD. USS Lite (the new name for this sound driver) is now covered by a copyright which is not acceptable for FreeBSD. Jordan has made it clear that he doesn't want to import USS Lite because of this copyright. Also, our driver is going to quickly drift away from TASD. For example, I know of people who are interested in implementing AWE32 support, GUS PnP init, support, and SB PnP support. Doing all of this stuff basically amounts to "hacking the living shit" out of parts of the sound driver. Unless someone turns around and tells me that USS Lite is "ok" for the kernel, then I think we *should* clean this up as much as possible. This driver was been a big ugly thorn sticking out of the kernel, and there have been many problems with it. Sujal
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