There is no royalty fee for mLan. You just have to register with Yamaha to become a Licensee (the process is lengthy because of the distance, it took not far from 2 month for me).
Sebastien ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 9:52 PM Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol.. > >On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:00:15PM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: > >(cut) > >>Yes, I agree that midi sucks. I'm wondering why dont we have > >>a newer protocol by now, but we dont. So there's nothing else > >>than having to stick to that archaic crap :) > >(cut) > > > >What about Yamaha's mLan ? > >I thought that was some kind of midi over firewire, > >but maybe they didn't grab it as an opportunity > >to improve on midi ... > > its not available under a royalty free license. its acceptance has > thus been much, much slower and less widespread than MIDI. > > --p >
