Re: OSS required?

[David O'Toole]

Don't worry---Octal does not, nor will it ever, depend on non-free
software. It currently uses the free variant of the OSS API that's
common on Linux systems. By the time the project reaches a usable-beta
stage the output API will be configurable, and I plan to have plugins
for OSS, ALSA, and JACK (inter-application audio connection API
developed by the linux-audio-dev group.)  

If I remember correctly, the location and filename of the OSS header is
not consistent across oss-compliant unices. I probably need to get up to
speed with GNU Autoconf/Automake :-)  



> Hello all:
>    I have just checked out a copy of the cvs repository.
> I plan to get the software built and running on OpenBSD 
> 3.2-current machines of various architectures.  I have 
> noticed in output.c a #include for a system level header 
> <sys/souncard.h> this seems to be part of the OSS system 
> (by 4front?) I am currious if this API subsystem is 
> required by octal or if this is optional.  Does this 
> software depend on software that isnt free?  Anyway, I was 
> just currious and thought I would ask the people who know. 
>  Have a good day.