RFC: wine ASIO driver available for testing

Jim White jim at pagesmiths.com
Wed Sep 6 11:04:45 CDT 2006


Eric Pouech wrote:

> I'm afraid submission (or integration in the Wine tree) will be problematic
> ASIO interface is copyrighted, and you need to sign an agreement to
> Steinberg for using the API.

Are you sure about that?  I see other GPL software using ASIO, like SndOBJ:

http://music.nuim.ie//musictec/SndObj/main.html

> IANAL, but including derivative work of a copyrighted API will not be
> possible.

Then how did Wine get started?

Jim




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