An anonymous reader writes "In a move that's a win for the free software community, Creative Labs has decided to release their binary Linux driver for the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi and X-Fi Titanium sound cards under the GPL license.
This is coming after several failed attempts at delivering a working binary driver and years after these sound cards first hit the market."

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