Re: Digital Audio Labs CardDeluxe

[James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>]

Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> I have asked the DAL people how we could get a Linux driver and they 
> replied that they've already had NDAs with a couple people to build a 
> Linux driver to no success.  They said they had to explain basic 
> concepts to them and it wasted too much of their time.  They are 
> reluctant to provide me with details as well because of this.
> 
> Secondly, they desire to release a BSD-driver, not a GPL driver as a 
> condition of an NDA.  I personally just wanted to make an ALSA driver, 
> but ALSA is GPL'd, which creates a problem.
> 
> I have no driver writing experience personally and am really quite busy 
> to learn everything to write it myself.  I'm wondering if anybody on 
> this list has already talked to DAL about it and if so, why there was no 
> success.  Depending on what has already happened, I might drop some 
> secondary projects to add time to work on this directly myself, but I 
> want to know if it's worth it.
> 
> It's the only hardware I own that doesn't work on Linux or any other 
> free OS yet, and I would like to use it in Linux because the sound 
> quality is literally unparalleled to any other card out there that I 
> know of.
> 
> Does anybody have any information, advice, suggestions on what I could 
> do to facilitate the process of getting a Linux driver for the 
> CardDeluxe?  Their website is at http://www.digitalaudio.com for the 
> interested.
> 
> Seth
> 

If someone donates a sound card to me, I could probably write a driver.
I have done so for some of the Creative Sound cards. They would
certainly not need to explain basic concepts to me. I would only need a
half decent datasheet.
The NDA should not restrict the license I wish to place on the driver.
If I write the driver, I choose the license.
DAL specifing the license sounds to me like FUD from DAL. I don't
believe for a second that they have signed any NDAs in order to aid open
source driver development.
One other thing I would need is external devices it might plug into. I
obviously have speakers and spdif devices, but I don't have MIDI or AES
8-channel devices.

James


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