From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hartmut Geissbauer Subject: Re: Full support for Creamware Noah and SFP Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:40:51 +0100 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1078944051.2445.10.camel@chief.local> References: <1078875033.13147.42.camel@zauberwald.zeitgeist> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Clemens Ladisch , Willie Sippel , alsa-devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:28:39 +0100 (MET), > Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > > > AFAIK drivers for ATI hardware are developed in a similar way (ATI > > gives specs under an NDA, the resulting driver is open source). > > > > Takashi, is that right? > > yes. but just make sure that you will release the driver source codes > under GPL even after you get the datasheet under NDA. that is, the > information there can be used as a public form. > (thus, in many cases, you don't need even NDA - it's just a question > of trust.) > > BTW, the firmware binary is not a part of the driver, so it's not > necessarily in the GPL form. it can be distributed as a binary. > i think many companies are afraid of opening their DSP source codes > rather than the driver codes. it's no problem if the DSP is apart > from the driver. > > > Takashi > I think we've to split the theme to different parts. - an usb driver for the Noah with the capabilitiy to use both usb configurations (control and midi/audio) at the same time. -an another (pci)driver to support the creamware DSP-cards. - an user-space application to manage the different cards, devices and uploadable plugins As I understood Willie, the drivers aren't a subject of the NDA. The NDA covers only the details of the user-space application. Hartmut -- Hartmut Geissbauer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click