[alsa-devel] License for UCM config files - re plumbers audio conf discussion.

[Takashi Iwai]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 12:01:29 +0100,
Liam Girdwood wrote:
> 
> During the plumbers audio conference we discussed changing the release
> cadence and packaging of the UCM config files. This was to separate them
> from the alsa-lib package and alsa-lib release cadence for easier and
> more timely distribution for Ubuntu, Fedora etc.
> 
> One thing that we did not cover was the UCM config file licence, if
> indeed there is a license for the UCM config files ? It's clear to me
> that the alsa-lib source and headers are LGPL, but does the LGPL also
> apply to the runtime UCM config files ? LGPL is specifically designed
> for libraries so my understanding is that it's probably not applicable
> to the UCM runtime configuration files.  
> 
> Here the LGPL definition of source code from alsa-lib COPYING :-
> 
>   ""Source code" for a work means the preferred form of the work for
> making modifications to it.  For a library, complete source code means
> all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated
> interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation
> and installation of the library."
> 
> Having a licence free or BSD/MIT type license for the UCM config repo
> would mean the configurations (or derivatives of) could also be used
> with Android.
> 
> IANAL
> 
> Liam

IANAL, too, but releasing the collection of configs with a relaxed
license sounds like a good idea to me.


Takashi