RFC: wine ASIO driver available for testing

Eric Pouech eric.pouech at wanadoo.fr
Sun Sep 24 11:49:25 CDT 2006


Jim White wrote:

>Eric Pouech wrote:
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>>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.
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>Are you sure about that?  I see other GPL software using ASIO, like SndOBJ:
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>http://music.nuim.ie//musictec/SndObj/main.html
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yes, check Steinberg's website

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>>IANAL, but including derivative work of a copyrighted API will not be
>>possible.
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>Then how did Wine get started?
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by using public information from Microsoft (and we're still are)
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