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Re: License requirements for DSP binaries?



On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 16:03, Brian Ristuccia wrote:
> You're talking about the files in mwavem-1.0.4/src/dsp, right?

Yes.

> Interestingly enough, those files are in RIFF format. It's a structured
> multimedia container format.

Interesting.

>  Embedded somewhere in the header of v90.dsp is
> the string "MICROCODE SOURCE MATERIALS.  MWAVE MICROCODE.  (C) COPYRIGHT IBM
> CORP. 1997.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED." It also looks like there's full symbols.
> 
> Perhaps these files are the source code, when opened with some proprietary
> dsp firmware editor we don't have?

Possibly; but I suspect that these files contain binaries, not
source code.

> Has anyone asked IBM yet?

I wrote once got no reply.  I have just written again to
the guys who ported the driver to Linux.

-- 
Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>



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