On November 20, 2001, Peter Seebach sent me the following:
> In message <200111201728.KAA13318@biology.nmsu.edu>, Brook Milligan writes:
> >Is there a driver for the ESS Maestro 3i sound system in NetBSD? I
> >see there is one for FreeBSD and seem to recall a discussion of a
> >port of it to NetBSD. However, I can find no evidence of it in the
> >mailing list archives or in the source.
> 
> There's a partial driver that works with at least some of those chips
> (such as the Allegro 1), but ESS is clueless and keeps sending me
> GPL'd copies of the DSP code, so it can't get merged in.

IIRC, the FreeBSD driver code also contains some GPL stuff, which is
why the Maestro3 driver is only available as a loadable module.

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