Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 00:58:00 -0600 From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com> To: Alex <ak@freenet.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creative seems to open up SB Live Message-ID: <38212E78.CFF011DD@thebarn.com> References: <3820C882.1D2F9709@thebarn.com> <199911040122.KAA60961@rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <19991103205203.A2472@ipass.net> <3820ECA7.2B9C11E1@thebarn.com> <38210B69.E8782D9F@freenet.co.uk>
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Alex wrote: > Russell Cattelan wrote: > > > > Randall Hopper wrote: > > > > > Seigo Tanimura: > > > |On Wed, 03 Nov 1999 17:42:59 -0600, > > > | Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com> said: > > > | > > > |cattelan> The problem with this of course would be the driver would have to > > > |cattelan> be entirely GPL'ed. > > > |cattelan> Any thoughts on this? > > > |cattelan> worth while in the sort term, complete rewrite in the long term? > > > |cattelan> (that may be hard to do without referencing the GPL'ed code) > > > | > > > | > > > |In the view of our sound driver architechure, rewriting would be an option > > > |as well, unless someone figures out a good way to accomodate OSS/ALSA drivers > > > |into newpcm & newmidi. > > > > > > It's possible it could be accommodated as GPL. The Linux AWE drivers I > > > integrated into the kernel tree are GPL, for example: > > > > > > /usr/src/sys/gnu/i386/isa/sound/ > > > > > > Main thing is they can't be compiled into the GENERIC kernel. The user > > > must make the choice to link GPL code into their kernels. If you defer to > > > the user, then you're safe with GPL AFAIK (though having to even think > > > about this GPL link-infection nonsense is a pain). > > > > > > > This would be a nice option... at least initially. > > If it were to be integrated into the newpcm stuff where > > does it leave it? GPL'ed? not cool. probably not acceptable. > > Integrate the code but keep GPL code in a separate dir creating dividing line? > > No! No GPLd crap in the kernel. Please don't do that! I've seen to many technical discussions digress into the "Men are from Mars Women are from Venus" type discussions. I'm not a bit fan of the GPL, but people use it for that same reason they use windows; it's there and everybody else uses it why shouldn't I. > The newpcm architecture is nice and > clean and it's best to keep it that way. The Linux driver can be used > as a source of information on how to initialise and program the card, > but no actual code should be integrated into the tree (not verbatim, > anyway). There doesn't seem to be anything special or particularly > complex about SBLive that it can't be ported to FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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