At Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:39:14 -0400,
Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> >Given that, technically, I can use ALSA with a user-space device driver, am
> >I right in thinking that the user-space driver must have a license that is
> >GPL compatible?
> >
> >Or is a closed source driver allowed?
> 
> alsalib is released under the GPL.

Isn't it LGPL?

alsa-driver and alsa-utils are under GPL, though.

> hence, any applications that to use it must be under the GPL. since
> such an application would clearly be utterly designed around the
> alsalib and alsa kernel API, you could not use dynamic linking to
> circumvent this.


Takashi

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