"LGPL API" (was: Re: Private company and code salvation)

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Mon, 9/29/08, Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: "LGPL API" (was: Re: Private company and code salvation)
> To: "Sergei Steshenko" <sergstesh at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "David Bateman" <David.Bateman at motorola.com>, "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu>, help-octave at octave.org
> Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 1:47 PM
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:55:09AM -0700, Sergei Steshenko
> wrote:
> > Linux kernel is GPL, ALSA is LGPL, I believe ALSA site
> claims one can
> > created closed-source audio applications based on
> ALSA.
> 
> And the ALSA developers surely love them:
> 
> 	Users of binary only dirvers must be instructed not use
> ALSA for
> 	technical support whatsoever! These users must be notified
> with
> 	the following notice. 
> 
> 	"These drivers are not part of the official ALSA
> distribution.
> 	ALSA will never support these drivers.  DO NOT attempt to
> 	contact ALSA for support."
> 
> http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/ALSA_Soundcard_Vendor_Information
> 
> 	Thomas

For some reason you did not consider this important statement in my 
original message:

"
ALSA lib - the thing end user needs for his/her audio application - is
a DLL - IIRC.
".

That is, end users are supposed to write both open and closed source
application talking to kernel + ALSA dirvers through ALSA lib.

I did not mean ALSA drivers could be closed source.

Regards,
  Sergei.