Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-07 Thread Hannu Savolainen
Alan Cox kirjoitti: doesn't mean it's derived from Linux. In the case of user-space code it's widely understood that no licence restrictions are conferred. The Actually that is also questionable. The only reason it is fairly certain in Linux is Linus went to the trouble of stating that i

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-25 Thread Hannu Savolainen
Takashi Iwai kirjoitti: At Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:51:38 +0200 (CEST), Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: Few dayas ago OSS source code was oppened uder CDDL for Solaris and GLPv2 for Linux: http://www.opensound.com/press/2007/oss-gpl-cddl.txt So this source without problems code can be integragrated in Li

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-25 Thread Hannu Savolainen
Tomasz Kłoczko kirjoitti: On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jun 24 2007 21:24, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: Try to answer on question "ALSA or OSS ?" using *only* technical arguments. Ok: The OSS cs46xx driver did not support the rear 2 channels. The cs46xx OSS driver in the kernel is

Handling xruns in OSS (was re:whatever)

2007-06-25 Thread Hannu Savolainen
Takashi Iwai kirjoitti: At Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:06:18 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: If it is native ALSA driver then it will restart after each underrun and overrun. It is the applications job to do this, alsa-lib provides all support for this. I have no idea of OSS and OSS emulation in ALSA.

Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2006-12-18 Thread Hannu Savolainen
Marek Wawrzyczny wrote: Dear Linux Kernel ML, I am writing as a Linux-only user of over 2 years to express my concern with the recent proposal to block out closed source modules from the kernel. While, I understand and share your sentiments over open source software and drivers. I fear howev