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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