Re: question about closed source alsa driver

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 12:22 -0300, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> >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.
> >  
> >
> It may be that his bosses are not as enlightened as him... you and I 
> understand that publishing the hardware interface to a sound card hardly 
> gives away crucial secrets, but PHBs might not. Maybe some evangelism is 
> in order.
> 

They just need to survey the market - I would think it would be enough
to see that Intel, Via, M-Audio, RME, Creative, and countless other
vendors all have provided open source ALSA drivers.

Lee



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