On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 17:36:06 +0200, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > > One more comment... > > 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. 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. > > Relicensing shouldn't be that hard after all, if that's desired (I > think it would be a good idea). Now that I looked, there actually > aren't many contributors to that plugin, only Takashi and Jaroslav. > Diego E. 'Flameeyes' Pettenò also has a commit, but it only changes one > line in the build system. I don't mind relicensing at all. But the only concern is that no one but for lawyers can confirm its validity... thanks, Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
