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From: "Kevin Duffey" <kduffey@inprise.com>
Subject: Re: (SB Live) Free drivers or not? (fwd) 
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>But attempting to enforce this legally may not be the best course of action
>anyway.  I think its more important to educate ALSA users about the
limitations
>of binary modules.  Linus has made his feelings about binary modules clear.
>He does not forbid them, but he won't lift a finger to support them.  If he
>wants to change the kernel in a way that breaks a binary module, he does
>so without blinking.

Am I to understand you correctly that at any time Linux can suddenly change
the kernel to a point that current libraries ( I assume these are like .DLL
files in MS Windows..Dynamic Linking Libraries..loaded by an app at
run-time, instead of compile time..is this correct? .o is their name?) will
no longer work at all?  I am a bit worried about this because I plan to
support the Linux community, but I am not giving my actual program away for
free, or the source code. I am worried that a new change in the kernel
could render my application useless? Or is their some other means to how
this works? I would assume that a new kernel would mean I could recompile
my project as is and it should work, so long as it links in the correct
libraries (if anything changed) etc.


Kevin Duffey
kduffey@inprise.com

