On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 12:01:29 +0100, Liam Girdwood wrote: > > During the plumbers audio conference we discussed changing the release > cadence and packaging of the UCM config files. This was to separate them > from the alsa-lib package and alsa-lib release cadence for easier and > more timely distribution for Ubuntu, Fedora etc. > > One thing that we did not cover was the UCM config file licence, if > indeed there is a license for the UCM config files ? It's clear to me > that the alsa-lib source and headers are LGPL, but does the LGPL also > apply to the runtime UCM config files ? LGPL is specifically designed > for libraries so my understanding is that it's probably not applicable > to the UCM runtime configuration files. > > Here the LGPL definition of source code from alsa-lib COPYING :- > > ""Source code" for a work means the preferred form of the work for > making modifications to it. For a library, complete source code means > all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated > interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation > and installation of the library." > > Having a licence free or BSD/MIT type license for the UCM config repo > would mean the configurations (or derivatives of) could also be used > with Android. > > IANAL > > Liam IANAL, too, but releasing the collection of configs with a relaxed license sounds like a good idea to me. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
