From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 25 17:19:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA23104 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA23098 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:19:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA25978; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:14:32 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604260014.RAA25978@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: USS Lite To: green@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (Charles Green) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:14:31 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199604251546.LAA01369@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> from "Charles Green" at Apr 25, 96 11:46:14 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > It appears Hannu Savolainen has `somewhat' changed his copywrite on > USS Lite. It now says: > > "USS Lite is a freeware version of the full UNIX Sound System. In short it's > exactly the same than current TASD 3.5 which is available for Linux, FreeBSD > and BSD/OS 2.1. The only difference between TASD and USS Lite will be a minor > change in copying conditions. USS Lite will be distributed under standard GPL. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > A bit different than what he previously was requesting. This is still > restrictive though. Ask for LGPL. A kernel module will, by definition, meet the relink clause for the LGPL. Otherwise it will be impossible to distribute binaraies (the default sound code should operate without needing to recompile the kernel, IMO, so binaries are an absolute necessity -- GPL restrictions on distributed binaries preclude distributing binaraies that are not wholly GPL). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.