On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 22:44 +0530, karina filer wrote: > Hi Team, > > Greetings !! > > I am facing difficulty to understand the Alsa-Plugin Licensing, Could you > please help me to make understand?, Is it under GPL 2.0 or LGPL 2.1 because > after extracting the folder I can see 2 copying file one for GPL and other > for LGPL. > > https://repology.org/project/alsa-plugins/packages alsa-plugins seems to lack a README or other overview document about the licensing... alsa-plugins is primarily licensed under LGPL 2.1, and to my knowledge the only exception is the libsamplerate based rate plugin. The licensing is explained here: https://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-plugins.git;a=blob;f=rate/rate_samplerate.c So this particluar rate plugin is licensed under GPL 2.0 "to follow the license of libsamplerate", unless you have a commercial license to libsamplerate. I don't think the rationale for that exception makes much sense (LGPL would have worked just fine, as far as I can tell), but at this point relicensing may be very difficult due to many contributors. libsamplerate was relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license in 2016[1], which may or may not allow you to apply LGPL to the rate plugin (my guess would be that it doesn't allow you to do that, but IANAL). [1] http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/license.html -- Tanu https://www.patreon.com/tanuk https://liberapay.com/tanuk _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
