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Date:      Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:32:00 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Csaba Henk <csaba-ml@creo.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support
Message-ID:  <86d4qzlnwf.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20080214101511.GE49155@beastie.creo.hu> (Csaba Henk's message of "Thu\, 14 Feb 2008 11\:15\:11 %2B0100")
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Csaba Henk <csaba-ml@creo.hu> writes:
> So then, just to clean up more implicit principles: also you mean that
> LGPL'd code can't go to the base system unless absolutely necessary?

I mean that we shouldn't if a suitable BSD-licensed alternative exists.

> Regarding your assumption: I think it's not true. The only thing that
> the lib and the module have in common is the header fuse_kernel.h which
> defines the data structures and constants used in the kernel/userspace
> protocol.

If those data structures and constants change, the port would have to
deal with supporting multiple FreeBSD versions simultaneously.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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