Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:33:42 -0200 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: ancelgray <ancelgray@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio? Message-ID: <e71790db0811280333g35dd9f5aqe4d78ef0f70511a9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20713056.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <20080121170155.GC51116@hamlet.SetFilePointer.com> <20713056.post@talk.nabble.com>
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:30 AM, ancelgray <ancelgray@yahoo.com> wrote: > > To AMD CS5536 users: > > This is Andrew Gray. I have finished the audio driver for the AMD CS5536 > companion > chip. It is working on a PC Engines Alix 1C low power board under FreeBSD > 7.0. > It can be found at: > > http://modelofreality.org/snd_amd5536.html > > Let me know how it goes. > > Andrew Gray > > ancelgray AT y a h o o DOT com Andrew, Thanks for the contribution. I have a spare HP thin client with AMD Geode in which I can give this driver a try, if I find some time available next week. I'm a bit concerned about the copyrights, however, as outlined below. The amd5536.c informs that it is "derived from Bruce R. Montegue's AMD CS5530 audio driver and the Linux CS5535 ALSA driver". I did not find the original source files, but supposing that they are licensed under GPL you will need a written permission from the owners to redistribute the code under a different licensing terms. From a strictly legal point of view, even paraphrasing a code may be considered copy. The amd5536.h contains a license statement but not the name of the licensor (copyright owner), which is mandatory. Anonymous contents can not be licensed. -- cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life make clean
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