Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Jan 2008 22:28 UTC, submitted by BSDfan
"4Front Technologies is proud to announce the release of the source code to Open Sound System v4.0 under the BSD license for FreeBSD and other BSD compliant operating systems. OSS is a cross platform API that provides drivers for most consumer and professional audio devices for UNIX and POSIX based operating systems, including Linux. Owing to its open architecture, applications developed on one supporting operating system platform can be easily recompiled on any other platform. Open Sound System is also available for Linux under the GPLv2 license and OpenSolaris under the CDDL license. It is also available for commercial and proprietary operating systems under the 4Front commercial license."
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2007-06-22
Well the damage is done and alsa will probably stay. The problem with oss is that after maintaining it for linux the author went commercial, which is not bad thing by itself but it is rather a huge disadvantage to have to pay for an essetial part of the operating system, especially one that is distributed under gpl2. I don't know the details, but i've heard the alsa architecture is not pretty either but thank god threre are alot of audio abstraction libraries out there.