From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 29 11:05:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA12009 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:05:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA12002 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:05:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from chuck@localhost) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA06561 for hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 14:05:07 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 14:05:07 -0500 From: Charles Green Message-Id: <199603291905.OAA06561@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: UNIX Sound SystemTM (USS) Lite (Formerly VoxWare) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Has anyone read Hannu Savolainen's new Copywrite? --------- 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