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ALSA is released under the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GPL (GNU General Public license)] and the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html | ALSA is released under the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GPL (GNU General Public license)] and the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License)]. | ||
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ALSA driver code is included to Linux kernel 2.6. | |||
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The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system. ALSA has the following significant features:
- Efficient support for all types of audio interfaces, from consumer sound cards to professional multichannel audio interfaces.
- Fully modularized sound drivers.
- SMP and thread-safe design.
- User space library (alsa-lib) to simplify application programming and provide higher level functionality.
- Support for the older Open Sound System (OSS) API, providing binary compatibility for most OSS programs.
ALSA is released under the GPL (GNU General Public license) and the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License).
ALSA driver code is included to Linux kernel 2.6.