Is DragonFly using OSS 4.0?

Justin C. Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Thu Aug 16 18:22:39 PDT 2007


On Thu, August 16, 2007 4:58 pm, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:

> What brought me to this list is the fact I'm auditing which of the
> *BSD systems is switching to the Open Sound System, which has become
> free software as of June this year.  OSS 4.0 is available under CDDL
> for the different *BSD's.
>
> I have looked around, but I haven't been able to find the information
> if DragonFly is or will use the Open Sound System in the future.

I can't find the original conversation, but I did note it:

http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/index.php/2007/06/07/2284.html

It's probably a matter of license (at the time it was GPL only; CDDL was
not available) and someone having the time to work on it.  So, yeah...
time.






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