Hello, Please help me in that license related case: I want to write a Lynx AES16 (http://www.lynxstudio.com/aes16.html) ALSA driver (I'm from Warsaw University of Technology and we want to use this card in our investigations). I wrote to Lynxstudio, and I received an answer that driver related specs are accessible under terms of Non-Disclosure Agreement which doesn't allow distribution of source code or any derived materials thus preventing development of ALSA driver as ALSA drivers are open source.
My question is: has an ALSA driver to be an open source? On www.alsa-project.org there is a sentence: "ALSA is released under the GPL (GNU General Public license) and the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License)." (please note the LGPL). I understand, that there can be a driver distributed in binary form (e.g in fact firmware needed to run hdsp are distributed in binary form), GPL means that you cannot close the ALSA core framework. Is this whole situation hopeless? Have I any arguments to use in the discussion with Lynxstudio? Thank you in advance and best regards, Michal Kostrzewa ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
