Date: 30 Mar 1996 10:02:16 GMT From: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: UNIX Sound SystemTM (USS) Lite (Formerly VoxWare) Message-ID: <4jj0r8$1mv@mordillo.physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960329235534.194G-100000@xi.dorm.umd.edu>
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Sujal Patel (smpatel@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
: On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
: > > 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
: >
: > In other words, this driver will NEVER be incorporated into FreeBSD.
: We should probably just go with TASD 3.5 which is under a BSDish
: copyright and then develop sound ourselves from here on. At least there
: is one bright side to this, we can finally clean up some of the sources so
: we don't have #ifdef LINUX #ifdef SYSV #ifdef SCO #BSDI, and the assorted
: horrible mess...
oh no - please no more incomaptibelities - i don't see the problem - we would
not put it into GENERIC and anybody may use it if he recompiles it in which we
may describe very clear in the handbook - anybody who wanted to use FreeBSD in
an commercial fashian may may licence the commercial version of uss (like done
for instance with the xinside xserver in some linux distribs) - but i would
totally vote against doing our own thing on sond - i think uss may become
somekind of sound standard in the unix world - and the source _is_ _free_ - if
we go our own way in some months no of the sound apps for linux/bsdi will work
with FreeBSD - _please_ stay at uss - everything else would be a bad decision
in my opinon
t
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