Re: [Alsa-user] Problem about emu10k1x datasheet

[Lee R. <rlr...@jo...>]

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 21:36 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:01 +0800, Kun Niu wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >>
> >> I've got a sound card SB! Live 5.1 Dell OEM.
> >> It worked well on my ubuntu, gentoo,sarge.
> >> But I can't find a driver for my card on FreeBSD 6.0 release.
> >> And I'll have try to write one by myself.
> >> But I can't find any datasheet for my card.
> >> Can anyone give some hints how to get one?
> >>
> >> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >
> > Your best bet is to contact the copyright owner of the Linux driver, and
> > ask their permission to write a BSD licensed driver based on it.
> 
> Isn't it GPL?
> He can write one for himself-- he already has permission. He could include
> it in a distro as well, but under GPL-- not sure if a module makes the
> kernel into a "derived work" but I would doubt it.
> 
> Of course getting permission to make it a BSD license might be cleanest,
> but I don't think is needed, is it?
> 

Yes, the GPL does not allow you to take a GPL driver and write a BSD
licensed driver based on it.

Lee