Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th Jun 2007 23:00 UTC
Francois 'mmu_man' Revol has released a preliminary port of the Open Sound System to Haiku/BeOS. "I have the pleasure to announce I have ported OSSv4.1test to BeOS. It's not finished yet, but it runs and plays some sound. The goal is to use its drivers to get wider audio support for Haiku, the Free software rewrite (under BSD/MIT) of BeOS."
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Yes, but the CDDL is very friendly license wise. It doesn't force all software linked to it to be distributed under the same license (unlike the GPL).
Just like the MPL (Mozilla Public License) the CDDL is based on, you can link it to anything without worrying about the license (assuming the license of what you're linking it to permits it).
Edited 2007-06-27 23:45 UTC
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2006-01-26
Last name should be Revol...
In any case, the only major drawback I see here is that it's GPL/CCDL and therefore will conflict with Haiku's chosen MIT license decision.
Fortunately, it appears Francois intends to get the changes ported back into the OSS repo trunk so that anyone wishing to compile this for BeOS/Haiku should be able to do so with minimal efforts.
It still remains to be seen how well it can be adapted to the backend of the media kit...
(Edit: corrected license statement above)
Edited 2007-06-27 23:09