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SubjectNew sound maintainer?
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Hannu's Voxware^H^H^H^H^H^H^HTASD^H^H^HUSS home page says this, in
part:

>USS Lite is a freeware version of the full UNIX Sound System. In short
>it's exactly the same than current TASD 3.5 which is available for Linux,
>FreeBSD and BSD/OS 2.1. The only difference between TASD and USS Lite
>will be a minor change in copying conditions. USS Lite will be freely
>distributable only in source code format. Distribution of precompiled
>binaries is not allowed. The lite version can be used only in the same
>computer (motherboard) where it was compiled. You are also allowed to
>use yourself driver binaries which you have compiled. But you are not
>allowed to compile the driver and give, sell, borrow or transfer it in
>other ways to another machine where it's used by your friend, customer
>or whoever else than you. This change in the copying conditions doesn't
>affect the way how the driver is currently used. As far as I know just
>one or two Linux distributions come with precompiled sound driver.

This is remarkably similar to the original Linux copyright permissions.
It is in strict conflict with the GPL. Therefore, USS Lite cannot be
included in the Linux kernel source. If any further development is to
happen with sound for the official Linux kernel, someone else will have
to start from the last beta of TASD with normal, sane copyright terms,
and develop a separate driver set, hopefully with the same API as
USS/USS Lite.

That's too bad.

Are there any volunteers willing to take up the task of maintaining a
Linux sound driver with GNU-friendly license conditions? Anyone
want to maintain LSS--Linux Sound System?

michaelkjohnson


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