Comment 2 for bug 557037

Thanks David.

"there is not a good enough license information for asihpi in alsa-firmware, so we can't move it right over. I'm sure Eliot can help sort this out"

I expect I can. The licence in alsa-firmware was considered 'good enough' at the time,

For reference, here it is.
http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-firmware.git;a=blob;f=asihpi/licence.txt;h=31b0f0d7bdf12b230a9a36a044c80e8b3e0ee063;hb=HEAD

If you suggest what would be "good enough", I'll put it to the powers that be at AudioScience

"Eliot has stressed the importance of matching kernel driver and firmware version, so this has to be checked as well."

While it is not always strictly true that the versions must be an exact match, this is the ideal state to aim for. And from time to time things change so that DSP code version < X will not work with driver code >= X.

FYI our windows "driver" installers always include the equivalent of control application, userspace libs, kernel drivers and DSP firmware all with the same version. In this environment, a 'stable api' is the interface to the userspace libs, not the interface between driver and DSP,