Hi I cooda sworn it was GPL. It is. Website ays so. ----- i am aware of that. that doesnt necessarily make it free software. for example the mp3 decoders like lame are by themselves under a free software license but patents on them override their freeness. in case of this wrapper its only useful for working with proprietary drivers. such a piece of code is called "contrib" in debian. its free software which depends on non free software to be usable. similar to java and tomcat for example. -- Regards, Rahul Sundaram