Re: alsa-lib: src/topology/* is GPL2

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On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 14:42 +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Today while I worked on the Debian packaging it was brought to my
> attention that the license governing src/topology is different to the
> rest of the library, and is not LGPL-2.1+ but GPL-2.
> 
> Linking in libtopology is the default in alsa-lib, and as I understand
> it, mixing LGPL2+ + GPL2 makes the resulting binaries effectively GPL2.
> 
> I am sure that was not the intention for obvious reasons. The code is ©
> Intel Corporation, so possibly this needs to be escalated there in the
> first place.

Oh, that's an error. It should all be LGPL-2.1 like the rest of the
library. 

Let me send some fixes shortly.

Thanks

Liam

> 
> Jordi


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