Paul Davis wrote:
> Hannu was the guy who made sound on linux possible in the first place.
> Have a little respect. OK, so he and others decided to try to make a
> business out of it, and they bowed down to NDA requirements from vendors
> as part of doing that. Many of us never liked the results of that
> decision, but its an understandable and, from some points of view, a
> defensible one too.
>
NDAs are not all bad. I signed an NDA with creative, and the result is
better support for open source drivers for Audigy and E-MU cards. I
choose the GPL license for my code, but I could have chosen any other
license I wanted.
I am not allowed to copy the datasheets themselves, but I can write
anything I like in the source code. I.e. comments etc.
So, I don't believe the argument that signing NDAs requires closed
source drivers.
James
P.S. For those interested, there is now an ALSA driver for the E-MU
1212m and E-MU 1820m.
Received on Tue Nov 7 04:15:11 2006
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