On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 21:48 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 21:36 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: > >> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > >> > >>> On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:01 +0800, Kun Niu wrote: > >>>> Dear all, > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> I've got a sound card SB! Live 5.1 Dell OEM. > >>>> It worked well on my ubuntu, gentoo,sarge. > >>>> But I can't find a driver for my card on FreeBSD 6.0 release. > >>>> And I'll have try to write one by myself. > >>>> But I can't find any datasheet for my card. > >>>> Can anyone give some hints how to get one? > >>>> > >>>> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. > >>>> > >>> > >>> Your best bet is to contact the copyright owner of the Linux driver, and > >>> ask their permission to write a BSD licensed driver based on it. > >> > >> Isn't it GPL? > >> He can write one for himself-- he already has permission. He could include > >> it in a distro as well, but under GPL-- not sure if a module makes the > >> kernel into a "derived work" but I would doubt it. > >> > >> Of course getting permission to make it a BSD license might be cleanest, > >> but I don't think is needed, is it? > >> > > > > Yes, the GPL does not allow you to take a GPL driver and write a BSD > > licensed driver based on it. > > Agreed. But it does allow you to take a GPL driver and write a GPL licensed > driver based on it. Then the question is whether that GPL licensed driver > can be used withing FreeBSD-- ie if there is anything in the FreeBSD > license which makes use of a GPL driver contrary to the license. I do not > think that the GPL license would forbid its use in FreeBSD. >
Ah, OK. I just assumed that FreeBSD would only accept BSD licensed drivers. You are right, he is probably free to use his own GPL'ed driver with FreeBSD, I suspect it just could not be accepted into a distribution. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
