Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 14:05:07 -0500 From: Charles Green <green@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: UNIX Sound SystemTM (USS) Lite (Formerly VoxWare) Message-ID: <199603291905.OAA06561@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>
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Has anyone read Hannu Savolainen's new Copywrite?
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What is USS Lite
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 freely distributable only in
source code format. Distribution of precompiled binaries is not allowed. The
lite version can be used only in the same computer (motherboard) where it was
compiled. You are also allowed to use yourself driver binaries which you have
compiled. But you are not allowed to compile the driver and give, sell,
borrow or transfer it in other ways to another machine where it's
used by your friend, customer or whoever else than you. This change in the
copying conditions doesn't affect the way how the driver is currently used.
As far as I know just one or two Linux distributions come with precompiled
sound driver.
USS Lite is NOT product of 4Front Technologies but rather a research and
hacking project maintained by Hannu Savolainen. 4Front technologies will
not support USS Lite or answer to any questions about it. They just sponsor
development of USS Lite.
As earlier with ATSD there is no "support" for USS Lite. I will still answer
to (email and usenet) questions about the driver as much I have time. However
my answer to questions about installing and configuring the driver will be
"Buy the commercial driver". All kind of questions and suggestions about
features, bugs and programming with the driver are still highly welcome.
One thing which changes is that I no longer can accept large patches to the
driver. My "in house" version of the driver is rather different than the
released freeware version. USS Lite is just "output" produced from the
development version. I can accept some patches but I will have to apply the
changes manually. This and some copyright reasons make it impossible to
accept drivers made by other persons to the official USS distribution. To
overcome this limitation I'm developing an interface (API) which permits
interfacing other low level drivers with USS (both lite and the full version).
This interface should make it much easier to write this kind of drivers.
--
Charles Green, PRC Inc. UN*X System Administration
22 Powell Ave. Apt. B UN*X Security &
Whitesboro, NY 13492 Programming
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