Hi, I've been having a chat[1] with a kmix developer (mixer program included with KDE). The program is including support for OSSv4 mixer API and I've suggested including a soundcard.h from OSS4 in the kmix distribution. Several questions were raised, and he asked me to put them on this list:
A. Legality: Is this legal? My understanding is that OSS is distributed in several packages, each under an exclusive license. So if someone wants a GPLv2 soundcard.h, he can just grab one from the GPLv2 distribution. Is this correct? B. Technical: Is this is a good idea? Well, the reason I asked him is that I think it would be much easier to get OSSv4 support included in binary distros if a soundcard.h file was included, and because gstreamer already includes a soundcard.h file. He suggested an alternative - have the build system search for an OSSv4 soundcard.h in the build system. IMHO, this would probably lead to asking distros to include a soundcard.h (leading to same questions * 1000 distros). What do you think? [1] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166591#c36 Yours, Yair K. _______________________________________________ oss-devel mailing list oss-devel@mailman.opensound.com http://mailman.opensound.com/mailman/listinfo/oss-devel
