On 19-Jan-2004 Michal Kostrzewa wrote:
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,
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:40:36AM +0100, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
Yep :( They don't like the invasive GPL. I can't understand those
people. We are speaking about a *driver*. The card is the product they
sell. Customers don't buy the card because they need to use the driver.
Huh? I don't know
Have I any arguments to use in the discussion with Lynxstudio?
Tell them you will use some other vendor instead, and that if they believe
there is anything about their card which needs hiding in software, they
are likely mistaken. If they want to protect IP, use patents for that --
not
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
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Michal Kostrzewa wrote:
Is this whole situation hopeless?
Yes.
Have I any arguments to use in the discussion with Lynxstudio?
Tell them you will use some other vendor instead, and that if they believe
there is anything about their card which needs hiding in software,