Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 20:00:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Sujal Patel <smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: snd into -current Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960806195726.181F-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199608052301.QAA12220@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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[ 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
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