From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Peter Zubaj <pzubaj@gaya.sk>
Cc: alsa-devel <alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Creative's X-Fi plans
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:37:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1149795457.3894.59.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1149794371.4886.6.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 21:19 +0200, Peter Zubaj wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 14:37 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > How could this possibly be legal? The alsa-kernel middle layer is GPL!
>
> They don't need this.
> They can have their own kernel driver and kernel API. Everything other
> can be alsa-lib plugin. And alsa-lib is LGPL.
But it would still be a derived work of the kernel. AFAICT the only
legal way is to make a GPL wrapper around their Windows driver like
Nvidia.
Lee
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-08 19:37 UTC|newest]
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2006-06-08 18:37 Creative's X-Fi plans Lee Revell
2006-06-08 19:19 ` Peter Zubaj
2006-06-08 19:37 ` Lee Revell [this message]
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