Re: [iiwusynth-devel] License Alsa audio driver

[Peter Hanappe]

Tim Goetze wrote:
> Peter Hanappe wrote:
>
>
> > Davis' ALSA driver. I wrote Paul Davis twice asking him if it's okay
> > to release it under the LGPL instead of GPL. So far he hasn't
> > answered me. In his tutorial on using the ALSA API, he write:
>
>
> just a stupid question, have you tried <address@hidden>?
> i remember him saying that he doesnt fetch mail from his @op.net
> address regularly any more.

I did. I send the same mail to both addresses.


> en tout cas, i have some tested skeleton C code derived from my C++
> for memory-mapped alsa PCM that i can offer as a base for a LGPL
> driver.

I started using the pcm.c example that comes with Alsa lib. The example
seems to be in public domain, so there shouldn't be any license
concerns. I use the memory mapped IO functions so the driver should
have less overhead than the previous one.


Thanks,
P

> tim