Various patches

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Wed Sep 24 08:45:51 PDT 2008


John Tapsell wrote:
> Hi Keith,
> 
>   On IRC someone brought up an important point that the license of
> libmd is somewhat dodgy.  Half the files have no copyright information
> at all, and some files are licenses such "for non-commercial use only"
> etc.  So it seems that we have to rule out using this.

What about the libmd from FreeBSD?   (I think that's what the libmd we
bundle with Solaris was originally based on.   Since I know the Solaris
libmd has already been heavily tuned for each supported CPU architecture,
I'd rather use that than a Xorg-private C language version.)

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering




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