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Date:      Sat, 30 Mar 1996 13:44:28 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UNIX Sound SystemTM (USS) Lite (Formerly VoxWare)
Message-ID:  <199603302044.NAA09686@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <4jj0r8$1mv@mordillo.physik.fu-berlin.de> from "Thomas Graichen" at Mar 30, 96 10:02:16 am

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> oh no - please no more incomaptibelities - i don't see the problem - we would
> not put it into GENERIC and anybody may use it if he recompiles it in which we
> may describe very clear in the handbook - anybody who wanted to use FreeBSD in
> an commercial fashian may may licence the commercial version of uss (like done
> for instance with the xinside xserver in some linux distribs) - but i would
> totally vote against doing our own thing on sond - i think uss may become
> somekind of sound standard in the unix world - and the source _is_ _free_ - if
> we go our own way in some months no of the sound apps for linux/bsdi will work
> with FreeBSD - _please_ stay at uss - everything else would be a bad decision
> in my opinon

The problem is that, under these new terms, FreeBSD can't maintain
its philosophy and come with a sound driver.  Under the old terms,
it can.

It seems like an easy call to me.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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