On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:48:23 -0800 (PST)
Bill Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
The problem is you can't link GPL code with non-GPL one, but you can link
LGPL code.
Not clear to me. depends on whether it creates a derived work under
copyright law. The driver really is pretty independent. The kernel
communicates with it through a well defined API-- ie the module is as
separate from the kernel as it could be.
Note that this is irrelevant if it is just for himself. He can do anything
he wants with GPL code for his own use AFAIK. But if he wants to distribute
it, then the GPL comes in.
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