[alsa-devel] ALSA license

[Clemens Ladisch]

Li, Steve wrote:
> I am trying to use ALSA in a commercial application. I see that in the
> introduction page, ALSA is licensed under GPL and LGPL. Can you tell
> me which part of ALSA is licensed under LGPL?

The ALSA library itself is licensed under the LGPL, so your closed-
source application can link to libasound.so.2.  Other parts of ALSA
(kernel drivers, plugins, etc.) are GPL.


Regards,
Clemens