Hi Tanu - this is perfectly acceptable. -Jason On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote: > Hi all, > > A bug was recently filed about the top-level LICENSE file not > mentioning the AGPL licensing of qpaeq: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92802 > > I was surprised to find out that qpaeq is licensed under AGPL. While we > could simply fix the top-level LICENSE file, I would prefer to change > the qpaeq license to LGPL v2.1 instead to be in line with the rest of > the PulseAudio code. I don't have anything against AGPL as such, but I > am against complicating the licensing terms of PulseAudio for no good > reason. > > In order to be able to change the license, we need an explicit > permission to do so from everyone who holds copyright to any part of > the code of qpaeq. Below is a list of every qpaeq contributor. I'm not > sure every small change is copyrightable, but I don't want to ignore > anyone's contribution at this point. If we don't get the permission > from everyone, we can at that point discuss if we can change the > license anyway. > > The contributors: > > Jason Newton > > added qpaeq script for GUI equalizer control to src/util > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=41853cc7c01d3b400e781bb9db8c09befd04685b > > remove .py extension from qpaeq > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=77c6b696560f460e74af85d069863e8337e99d33 > > src/utils/qpaeq: added more friendly error messages to common errors > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=4eb65a0a46bd880faf620db3dff94f82f966bd61 > > Maarten Bosmans > > qpaeq: Make it python3 and python2 compatible > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=b453e13edef8be95d70d837466e911b883faf476 > > Arun Raghavan > > utils: Typo fixes in qpaeq > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=bb2e60a142ca0a2f95a168751073e17f7623a552 > > MatÄ?j Laitl > > qpaeq: Try to load equalizer module before failing, better error messages > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=f36148a82e99b40a0adebfdf10c83e480b484847 > > Aidan Gauland > > qpaeq: Don't set font-size on widgets > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=be4619e3f7b98a0595418bd7d13b7504ffb5136f > > If you're one of the listed contributors, please reply to this mail, > stating whether you give permission to change the license of the code > you wrote to LGPL v2.1. > > Of course, if anyone (contributor or not) thinks relicensing is a bad > idea, speak up. We can always just add a note about AGPL to the top- > level LICENSE. > > -- > Tanu > > https://www.patreon.com/tanuk
