[alsa-devel] alsa-lib support for compress offload

[Qais Yousef]

On 01/21/2015 07:10 AM, Vinod Koul wrote:
> Sorry for delayed reply, I am travelling.

Thanks for taking the time to answer.

>
> tinycompress comes with dual license LGPL and BSD. Currently the main user of
> this is Android which picks up the BSD license.
>
> Though I am not a lawyer, but I don't see a reason if alsa-lib uses LGPL
> license to take this lib and include compress support in alsa-lib. This
> way we have code reuse and take advantage of alsa-lib to support compress
> formats too. Takashi is that fine with you?
>
> I would hate if we had to rewrite the simple wrappers over IOCTLs to support
> compress in alsa-lib!
>
> Thanks
>

Unless Takashi comes up with an objection, I'll work just on that.

Thanks,
Qais