On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, at 06:43 PM, Tanu Kaskinen 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. I'm fine with the relicense. Cheers, Arun
