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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: [available] sound applications: xboing, tracker and NetBSD-0.8.sound Date: 28 Sep 1993 21:23:05 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 32 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <28a9vp$3dg@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <hastyCDzEwM.384@netcom.com> <hastyCE0un7.8pA@netcom.com> <1993Sep27.222859.135@ieunet.ie> <TRI.93Sep28091222@beta.hut.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca In article <TRI.93Sep28091222@beta.hut.fi>, Timo Rinne <Timo.Rinne@hut.fi> wrote: >> I wish you luck, Amancio, but be warned that merely asking *him* for >> permission isn't going to save us, since it pretty much went out of >> his hands the minute he released it under the GPL! He can't tell you >> that it's OK for you to release a binary-only copy of his GPL'd >> driver; no one can. > >Of course he can grant additional permission to distribute his work if >he chooses to do so. Why couldn't he. It's his work and he can do >pretty much anything with it. Once he surrenders the code to the GPL, any work based on that code also falls under the GPL, even if he no longer wishes it to be so. I was actually planning on writing a sound card driver for NetBSD for some fun. I'm still not sure whether to write it for the SoundBlaster or the Microsoft SoundSystem (I still haven't purchased the thing), but I would most definitely NOT release it under GPL.... Marc 'em. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA "Satan has a stranglehold on my toilet and he won't let go!" - frm the Weekly World News