From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Subject: Re: Creative's X-Fi plans
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:37:36 -0400
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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