From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 30 12:47:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA09471 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 12:47:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA09464 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 12:47:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA09686; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 13:44:28 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603302044.NAA09686@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: UNIX Sound SystemTM (USS) Lite (Formerly VoxWare) To: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 13:44:28 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4jj0r8$1mv@mordillo.physik.fu-berlin.de> from "Thomas Graichen" at Mar 30, 96 10:02:16 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.