Hi all, Supporting all possible open source licenses is a mess. It is not possible to find a situation that is acceptable to everybody. The license of soundcard.h was earlier fixed to BSD that was the most permissive license. This had to be changed because some customers want the license to be the same in all files. Some others want to use something else. For some customer everything is OK as long as "GPL" is not mentioneded anywhere in the source tree.
Our intention is to let everybody to use soundcard.h freely and to ship it with their software regardless of which license is punched on the header. However the ideal situation is that soundcard.h file always comes from the latest OSS version. Best regards, Hannu ------- Yair K. wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ oss-devel mailing list oss-devel@mailman.opensound.com http://mailman.opensound.com/mailman/listinfo/oss-devel
