so that SGI can integrate them, along with the rest of the current patches,
into its own tree. The BSD license on the old code was preventing that,
as SGI's legal weasels will only allow them to accept GPL'd code.
My stuff's more well written anyway; I know how to write C++, the old author
didn't.
could without licensing problems. The rest they host as a separate patch on
their ftp server.
Please test this for compilation problems on -CURRENT with gcc-3.2.