Re: [iiwusynth-devel] License Alsa audio driver

[Peter Hanappe]

Bob Ham wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 14:03, Peter Hanappe wrote:
>
>
> > > 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.
>
>
> Unfortunately, if it doesn't say "this is released to the public domain"
> or whatever, you unfortunately have to assume that it's not in the
> public domain and the author's copyrights are still exercised.  Why do
> you say it seems to be?  Is there such a notice?

I tought that if the author doesn't claim the copyright, it's in the
public domain. And getting copyright protection is trivial, just write
'copyright <name>' on the document. I could be wrong, though.

To avoid problems, maybe it's better if I start from your skeleton code.

P


> Bob