OSS required?

[Roman Hunt]

Hello all:
I have just checked out a copy of the cvs repository.
I plan to get the software built and running on OpenBSD
3.2-current machines of various architectures. I have
noticed in output.c a #include for a system level header
<sys/souncard.h> this seems to be part of the OSS system
(by 4front?) I am currious if this API subsystem is
required by octal or if this is optional. Does this
software depend on software that isnt free? Anyway, I was
just currious and thought I would ask the people who know.
Have a good day.

-roman

[David O'Toole]

Don't worry---Octal does not, nor will it ever, depend on non-free
software. It currently uses the free variant of the OSS API that's
common on Linux systems. By the time the project reaches a usable-beta
stage the output API will be configurable, and I plan to have plugins
for OSS, ALSA, and JACK (inter-application audio connection API
developed by the linux-audio-dev group.)

If I remember correctly, the location and filename of the OSS header is
not consistent across oss-compliant unices. I probably need to get up to
speed with GNU Autoconf/Automake :-)

Post by Roman Hunt
I have just checked out a copy of the cvs repository.
I plan to get the software built and running on OpenBSD
3.2-current machines of various architectures. I have
noticed in output.c a #include for a system level header
<sys/souncard.h> this seems to be part of the OSS system
(by 4front?) I am currious if this API subsystem is
required by octal or if this is optional. Does this
software depend on software that isnt free? Anyway, I was
just currious and thought I would ask the people who know.
Have a good day.