On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 21:36 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:01 +0800, Kun Niu wrote: > >> Dear all, > >> > >> > >> I've got a sound card SB! Live 5.1 Dell OEM. > >> It worked well on my ubuntu, gentoo,sarge. > >> But I can't find a driver for my card on FreeBSD 6.0 release. > >> And I'll have try to write one by myself. > >> But I can't find any datasheet for my card. > >> Can anyone give some hints how to get one? > >> > >> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. > >> > > > > Your best bet is to contact the copyright owner of the Linux driver, and > > ask their permission to write a BSD licensed driver based on it. > > Isn't it GPL? > He can write one for himself-- he already has permission. He could include > it in a distro as well, but under GPL-- not sure if a module makes the > kernel into a "derived work" but I would doubt it. > > Of course getting permission to make it a BSD license might be cleanest, > but I don't think is needed, is it? >
Yes, the GPL does not allow you to take a GPL driver and write a BSD licensed driver based on it. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
