From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Aug 6 20:02:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA26717 for multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 20:02:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.my.domain (root@moon-c27.aa.net [204.157.220.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA26706 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 20:02:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (smpatel@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.my.domain (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA04727; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 20:00:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 20:00:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Sujal Patel X-Sender: smpatel@localhost To: Terry Lambert cc: "Christoph P. Kukulies" , multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: snd into -current In-Reply-To: <199608052301.QAA12220@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ cc to -current dropped ] On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > Is this the new sound code with the GPL license, or the old sound code > with the more lenient license? > > There was a big discussion on the license change, and the consensus > seemed to be to not update the code, since a GPL code in the kernel > makes the kernel non-distributable because of the conflicts between > the GPL "no additional conditions" clause and the BSD "give credit" > clause. I had a discussion about the sound driver with -core about two months ago, and it was decided that we would import the GPL driver. The stipulation is that the sound driver must be fully contained in a loadable module. I don't like GPL any more then the next guy, but we simply don't have the person-power maintain the sound driver if we import USS-Lite. I have begun the work to get the latest version of USS-Lite into -current (and I hope to have this done soon, I have some free time again). Sujal