Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 13:44:28 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UNIX Sound SystemTM (USS) Lite (Formerly VoxWare) Message-ID: <199603302044.NAA09686@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <4jj0r8$1mv@mordillo.physik.fu-berlin.de> from "Thomas Graichen" at Mar 30, 96 10:02:16 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> 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 The problem is that, under these new terms, FreeBSD can't maintain its philosophy and come with a sound driver. Under the old terms, it can. It seems like an easy call to me. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199603302044.NAA09686>