From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Sergey Kolosov <freeserj@gmail.com>
Cc: "Petter Sundlöf" <petter.sundlof@findus.dhs.org>,
alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: question about closed source alsa driver
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:55:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147791320.13948.111.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d39e2e70605160637g153bd27ei3cc3dc28df59dba1@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 17:37 +0400, Sergey Kolosov wrote:
> Whether me interests if I shall write closed source alsa driver there
> will be it violations gpl?
>
No you cannot. The ALSA driver core is GPL so all drivers must be GPL.
Why do you need to hide the hardware details? It's just a sound card.
Lee
> On 5/16/06, Petter Sundlöf <petter.sundlof@findus.dhs.org> wrote:
> Question is, in my mind: Should you?
>
> Sergey Kolosov wrote:
> > Can i write closed source alsa-driver? If it possible what
> rules I must
> > succeed(etc. can I use alsa function or I must implement it
> anew?).
> >
> > P.S.
> > It is not my initiative, but license agreement.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-16 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-16 10:18 question about closed source alsa driver Sergey Kolosov
2006-05-16 13:05 ` Petter Sundlöf
2006-05-16 13:37 ` Sergey Kolosov
2006-05-16 14:55 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-05-16 15:22 ` Juan Carlos Castro y Castro
2006-05-16 15:26 ` Lee Revell
2006-05-16 15:56 ` Juan Carlos Castro y Castro
2006-05-16 19:26 ` Sergey Kolosov
2006-05-17 18:09 ` Thierry Vignaud
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