Comment Re:ALSA, what's the point of it? (Score 1) 46
There is no soundcard.h in ALSA. The main header file that applications include is sys/asoundlib.h which is LGPL. It does include some other files that are GPL'ed but maybe it would have been better to ask if that was just an oversight.
The free drivers that are included in the kernel are almost all GPL as well, so they are not free to be used in closed source products, unless they are also available under a different licence as well. So I don't really see what the point is here.
The reason why I started using ALSA was simply because OSS just didn't work for me. Whenever you try to find out more, the advice was always to get the commercial version. Eventually I realised that it just isn't very suitable for music applications and that ALSA had a better plan and a more promising future even though it was less complete.
The free drivers that are included in the kernel are almost all GPL as well, so they are not free to be used in closed source products, unless they are also available under a different licence as well. So I don't really see what the point is here.
The reason why I started using ALSA was simply because OSS just didn't work for me. Whenever you try to find out more, the advice was always to get the commercial version. Eventually I realised that it just isn't very suitable for music applications and that ALSA had a better plan and a more promising future even though it was less complete.
