Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:28:39 +0100 (MET), > Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > > > AFAIK drivers for ATI hardware are developed in a similar way (ATI > > gives specs under an NDA, the resulting driver is open source). > > > > Takashi, is that right? > > yes. but just make sure that you will release the driver source codes > under GPL even after you get the datasheet under NDA. that is, the > information there can be used as a public form. > (thus, in many cases, you don't need even NDA - it's just a question > of trust.) > > BTW, the firmware binary is not a part of the driver, so it's not > necessarily in the GPL form. it can be distributed as a binary. > i think many companies are afraid of opening their DSP source codes > rather than the driver codes. it's no problem if the DSP is apart > from the driver. > > > Takashi >
I think we've to split the theme to different parts. - an usb driver for the Noah with the capabilitiy to use both usb configurations (control and midi/audio) at the same time. -an another (pci)driver to support the creamware DSP-cards. - an user-space application to manage the different cards, devices and uploadable plugins As I understood Willie, the drivers aren't a subject of the NDA. The NDA covers only the details of the user-space application. Hartmut -- Hartmut Geissbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
