RE: [Alsa-devel] Lynx AES16 driver

2004-01-20 Thread Giuliano Pochini
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,

Re: [Alsa-devel] Lynx AES16 driver

2004-01-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
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

Re: [Alsa-devel] Lynx AES16 driver

2004-01-20 Thread Michal Kostrzewa
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

[Alsa-devel] Lynx AES16 driver

2004-01-19 Thread Michal Kostrzewa
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

Re: [Alsa-devel] Lynx AES16 driver

2004-01-19 Thread Dan Hollis
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,