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 11:26:00 -0400 Message-ID: <1147793161.13948.117.camel@mindpipe> References: <4469CE12.6090701@findus.dhs.org> <1147791320.13948.111.camel@mindpipe> <4469EE3B.7010600@instant.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4469EE3B.7010600@instant.com.br> 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: Juan Carlos Castro y Castro Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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 easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642