Re: [Audacity-devel] asio support

[Anthony A. O. <ai...@gm...>]

On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:48:56 +0100, Markus Meyer wrote:

>Hi Vasja,
>
>ASIO is supported by Portaudio v19, which is part of Audacity. That 
>means, ASIO is actually supported in the current Audacity version (on 
>Windows). However, the binaries available on the website don't include 
>ASIO support, because the ASIO license is incompatible with Audacity's 
>license. However, you should be able to compile Audacity with ASIO 
>support yourself.

How can that be ?

A device driver, part of a GPL(or LGPL)'ed package, Portaudio, interfaces
to a non-GPL'ed , i.e. device driver , actualy a system-level driver, as
it's a standard in Windows like MME drivers are, in MacOSX like Coreaudio
is.

What's the holdup? It's the only professional driver type, and no
Gigasamplers drivers don't count.

Hard to belive.

 Tony