Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 20:17:11 -0600 From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> Cc: Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creative seems to open up SB Live Message-ID: <3820ECA7.2B9C11E1@thebarn.com> References: <3820C882.1D2F9709@thebarn.com> <199911040122.KAA60961@rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <19991103205203.A2472@ipass.net>
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Randall Hopper wrote: > Seigo Tanimura: > |On Wed, 03 Nov 1999 17:42:59 -0600, > | Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com> said: > | > |cattelan> The problem with this of course would be the driver would have to > |cattelan> be entirely GPL'ed. > |cattelan> Any thoughts on this? > |cattelan> worth while in the sort term, complete rewrite in the long term? > |cattelan> (that may be hard to do without referencing the GPL'ed code) > | > | > |In the view of our sound driver architechure, rewriting would be an option > |as well, unless someone figures out a good way to accomodate OSS/ALSA drivers > |into newpcm & newmidi. > > It's possible it could be accommodated as GPL. The Linux AWE drivers I > integrated into the kernel tree are GPL, for example: > > /usr/src/sys/gnu/i386/isa/sound/ > > Main thing is they can't be compiled into the GENERIC kernel. The user > must make the choice to link GPL code into their kernels. If you defer to > the user, then you're safe with GPL AFAIK (though having to even think > about this GPL link-infection nonsense is a pain). > This would be a nice option... at least initially. If it were to be integrated into the newpcm stuff where does it leave it? GPL'ed? not cool. probably not acceptable. Integrate the code but keep GPL code in a separate dir creating dividing line? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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