Re: [HOpenGL] Back again

On 2013-Jul-23, Sven Panne and/or a Mail User Agent wrote:

2013/7/22 Jason Dagit :

...

[...]. It looks like OpenAL is now proprietary. (See license information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAL). So I don't really know if it makes sense to bother with OpenAL bindings. I know several folks have stopped considering it completely.

As a previous maintainer of the OpenAL SI, this saddens me... :-( I didn't follow the OpenAL changes lately, but I should probably do that now. At least OpenAL Soft seems to be still alive, and it is the default implementation installed on my Ubuntu box. So it probably makes at least some sense to fix the OpenAL binding, and it shouldn't be too hard.

The Wikipedia article points out that the _implementation_ of OpenAL by Creative Technology has gone proprietary (how dare they continue to call it "Open" AL!) but that the _other implementation_ called "OpenAL Soft" is open source. Wikipedia's link to OpenALSoft is dead; plausible alternatives include - http://sourceforge.net/projects/openal-soft/ ("License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2)" - http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html - referenced from http://opensource.creative.com/pipermail/openal/2012-March/012511.html - http://repo.or.cz/w/openal-soft.git I wonder if people have stopped using OpenAL because they don't know about OpenAL Soft or because there is something inferior about it. *** And -- delightful to see you back, Sven! -- Gregory D. Weber, Ph. D. http://mypage.iu.edu/~gdweber/ Associate Professor of Informatics Tel (765) 973-8420 Indiana University East FAX (765) 973-8550