> The documentation is copyrighted, and since there are no special > exceptions mentioned anywhere, it's covered by LGPL like everything > else. I now read what the license says, and I got the impression that > if you copy the documentation, you have created a derivative work, > and the whole work must be licensed under LGPL, and you can't change > the licensing terms by adding alternative licenses. > > Granting an exception for your project probably isn't feasible. The > copyrights to PulseAudio code isn't held by any centralized entity. > Someone would have to inspect the history of everything you've copied > to find out who are the people who hold copyrights to the > documentation. Only those who hold the copyrights can grant > exceptions. > > One possibility might be that you split off the documentation to a > separate work (probably best to create a separate git repository) so > that only the documentation needs to be under LGPL and the bindings > themselves you can license however you wish. > >-- >Tanu Ok, thanks for looking into it :) I've sent a message to the FSF (LGPL authors) to ask for a clarification from them. I'll have a think about whether it is at all feasible to either split the documentation out like that, or to build a list of copyright owners that would need to grant permission myself (I couldn't expect you to put the effort in on my behalf). Regards, Lyndon _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
