From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: question about closed source alsa driver Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:55:19 -0400 Message-ID: <1147791320.13948.111.camel@mindpipe> References: <4469CE12.6090701@findus.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Sergey Kolosov Cc: Petter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sundl=F6f?= , alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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? >=20 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 Sundl=F6f wrote: > Question is, in my mind: Should you? > =20 > 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.=20 >=20 ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job ea= sier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronim= o http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D120709&bid=3D263057&dat=3D= 121642