Re: time to remove COPYING.GPL from alsa-plugins? (issue #45)

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Hi Takashi,

Thanks for taking time to address this issue.

Yes, rate_samplerate.c is dual licensed (LGPL or GPLv2).   However,
depending on one's interpretation, someone MAY conclude that the
rate_samplerate plugin is licensed as GPLv2 for a commercial entity
such as Broadcom.

The first line in the license is:

"This plugin code is supposed to be used and distributed primarily
under GPL v2 or later..."

The second line says:

"However, if you already own a commercial license to use libsamplerate
for dynamic linking, this plugin code can be used and distributed also
under LGPL v2.1 or later."

But Broadcom does not own a "commercial license to use libsamplerate"
since libsamplerate basically eliminated the need for a commercial
license in 2016 when it was released with the 2-Clause BSD license.
So it is not clear whether the first sentence (GPLv2) or the second
sentence (LGPLv2) applies to Broadcom.

So I am trying to eliminate any possibility of different
interpretations by requesting that the license in rate_samplerate.c
and the alsa-plugins be updated to reflect the current license status
of libsamplerate.


Thank you,
Michael




On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 1:55 AM Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:26:31 +0200,
> Michael Wang wrote:
> >
> > Hi Alsa-devs and Mr Iwai,
> >
> > Sorry for the spam, I am resending this in plain text mode this time.
> >
> > It seems the only thing in alsa-plugins that has a GPL license is
> > rate/rate_samplerate.c, and that is due to the license of
> > libsamplerate.  But in 2016, libsamplerate dropped the commercial/GPL
> > part of its license and was released with the 2-Clause BSD license.
> > So I was wondering if the license for rate_samplerate.c can be updated
> > to remove the GPL license, which means the COPYING.GPL file can also
> > be removed from the alsa-plugins package?
> >
> > I have created issue #54 in github.com/alsa-project/alsa-plugins, but
> > so far, no action.
> >
> > Should I submit a pull request?
>
> The code allows LGPL, too.  What's the problem with it?
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Takashi

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