On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 16:20 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > 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. I now had a look at the link you provided, and there I saw that BSD-3- Clause and MIT were also mentioned. I had a closer look at the code, and I found two more exceptions: the libspeexdsp based rate plugin (under the pph directory) seems to be licensed under BSD-3-Clause, and rate-lav/gcd.h is licensed under MIT (rate-lav/rate_lavrate.c is LGPL, however). > 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
