From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Jul 20 1:10:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A6B37B400 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 01:10:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout09.sul.t-online.com (mailout09.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 174F343E42 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 01:10:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd03.sul.t-online.de by mailout09.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17VpK3-0002ko-06; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 10:10:39 +0200 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (520065502893-0001@[80.131.105.65]) by fmrl03.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17VpKr-18GXq4C; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 10:11:29 +0200 Received: from Leidinger.net (Magelan [192.168.1.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6K8Aax40973; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 10:10:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Message-ID: <3D392909.1030408@Leidinger.net> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 10:10:33 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: de, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dev Mazumdar Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advanced Linux Sound Driver (ALSA) for FreeBSD ??? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 520065502893-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dev Mazumdar wrote: > If you really want to use professional audio soundcards under FreeBSD, > our commercial OSS drivers support all MIDIMan, RME Digi32/Digi96, > Sonorus Studi/o, Terratec EWS88MT and others. You get full OSS > compatibility so that your standard FreeBSD and OSS API compatible ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ We are talking about the same API here, right? > apps work right out of the box. > The best thing is that OSS API is licensed under a BSD license!. I don't get it. How can an API be licensed? I'm from germany, so I may have misunderstood some stupid american laws, but as far as I know an API can't be put withhin a license (see motif/lesstif). Bye, Alexander. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message