Re: [alsa-devel] alsa-lib: src/topology/* is GPL2

On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 14:42 +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote:

Hello,

Today while I worked on the Debian packaging it was brought to my attention that the license governing src/topology is different to the rest of the library, and is not LGPL-2.1+ but GPL-2.

Linking in libtopology is the default in alsa-lib, and as I understand it, mixing LGPL2+ + GPL2 makes the resulting binaries effectively GPL2.

I am sure that was not the intention for obvious reasons. The code is © Intel Corporation, so possibly this needs to be escalated there in the first place.

Oh, that's an error. It should all be LGPL-2.1 like the rest of the library.

Let me send some fixes shortly.

Thanks

Liam

Jordi