From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 20 10:48:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B51B16A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:48:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from orchid.homeunix.org (awr133.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.27.77.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AADE43D31 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:48:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org) Received: from [192.168.1.66] (blackacidevil.orchid.homeunix.org [192.168.1.66]) (authenticated bits=0) by orchid.homeunix.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0KAlvwr011196 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:48:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org) Message-ID: <41EF8C5D.5080802@orchid.homeunix.org> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:47:57 +0100 From: Karol Kwiatkowski User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050114) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gerard-seibert@rcn.com References: <20050119201210.FD8C.GERARD-SEIBERT@rcn.com> In-Reply-To: <20050119201210.FD8C.GERARD-SEIBERT@rcn.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/663/Tue Jan 11 23:44:48 2005 clamav-milter version 0.80j on orchid.homeunix.org X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open Sound System X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:48:16 -0000 Gerard Seibert wrote: > I have seen OSS from opensound.org mentioned here a few times. I have > not been able to locate it in the 'ports tree'. Would I be correct in > assuming that it is not available there, but rather only by downloading > it directly from opensound.org directly? Yes, that's correct. AFAIK, the reason is this: "Open Sound System is not freeware but commercial product. The software itself is freely downloadable from our web site. However it needs a run time license to work. The software package itself contains a time limited evaluation license which installs automatically. To remove the time limit you will need to purchase a permanent license from our web site or any of our official distributors."[1] and: "Open Sound System is now free for personal and non-commercial use and comes with a license key that will allow you to run OSS. The license key is valid for 3 months at a time after which you will need to download and install OSS again. There are no time limitations or restricted functionality during the licensing period. A permanant license key that will entitle you to free support and upgrades can be ordered here"[2] Regards, Karol [1] http://www.opensound.com/install_gzipped.html [2] http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi -- Karol Kwiatkowski