10 Oct
2007
10 Oct
'07
10:53 a.m.
At Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:11:12 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
Tobin Davis wrote:
What I don't understand, is are they allowed to use our code to build their drivers? They use alsa core modules to interoperate (from what I can tell in the Readme.txt).
The GPL disallows distributing binaries of GPL-derived code. Creative doesn't do that; AFAICS all files interfacing with ALSA are distributed as source code.
We may change EXPORT_SYMBOL to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. But, it's again the same game. You can write a GPL driver that simply bridges the GPL-exported interface to others.
BTW, I heard some of X-Fi being HD-audio. Is it true?
Takashi