2009/9/7 Arthur Chen <[email protected]> > Hi Kevin， > > I know ALSA is used in Ubuntu system for alsa-base package is installed on > it. But we don't know the license of the deb package, I think we should > maybe we could ask that on the forum of Ubuntu . it is embarassed to ask users to compiled the sound driver again manually....
> download the alsa source package, compiled it as GPLed like ffmpeg, then we > GPLed? should be LGPLed > use the APIs of ALSA to capture audio. > > Regards, > Arthur > 2009/9/7 Samuel Kevin <[email protected]> > > > hi Arthur: > > The last step is always the hardest. Alsa now is popular in linux > > distribution, at least in my Ubuntu. i just checked it and i found that > it > > is both GPLed and LGPLed. It is quiet awkward that how could i know > whether > > the alsa driver in my system is GPLed or LGPLed? > > regards > > Kevin > > > > 2009/9/7 Arthur Chen <[email protected]> > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I thought we have solved the oss problem last time for Kevin and I > > deleted > > > some code related to OSS, but we didn't notice that OSS is used to > > capture > > > audio,. The APIs of OSS is in <linux/soundcard.h>,. Generally speaking > > OSS > > > is used as soundcard driver, but it is GPLed. Another Linux soundcard > > > driver > > > is ALSA, it has LGPLed version. > > > To capture audio, the using of APIs of soundcard driver is inevitable, > so > > > maybe we should use ALSA to replace OSS. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Arthur > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Bowen Ma a.k.a Samuel Kevin @ Bluesky Dev Team XJTU > > Shaanxi Province Key Lab. of Satellite and Terrestrial Network Tech > > http://incubator.apache.org/bluesky/ > > > -- Bowen Ma a.k.a Samuel Kevin @ Bluesky Dev Team XJTU Shaanxi Province Key Lab. of Satellite and Terrestrial Network Tech http://incubator.apache.org/bluesky/
