[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] ucm-conf: Add intel UCM conf files to alsa-ucm-conf repo

[Takashi Iwai]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:50:57 +0200,
Liam Girdwood wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 16:54 +0800, fuweix.tang at intel.com wrote:
> > From: Fuwei Tang <fuweix.tang at intel.com>
> > 
> > Add the intel UCM configs to a dedicated UCM conf repo and release them using
> > the BSD license.
> 
> We are still missing the LICENSE/COPYING file. We need to add it the top
> directory level so it's clear to users. 
> 
> > The other non intel UCM files can be moved over when there is agreement with the
> > file authors, but in the mean time they will stay in alsa-lib.
> > The configs are moved from alsa-lib repo. The original authorship and commit
> > message of all config files will be reserved.
> > 
> 
> Takashi, how do you want to manage the move ? We could add the files to
> the new repo first and then only delete them in alsa-lib after the next
> alsa-lib release ? This would give time for distros to pick up the new
> conf package. I'm easy on whatever works best here.

We really need a consensus before dealing with such patches.
It's just a copy / move of some files to another repo, so a patch is
just a waste of bandwidth.

If the only question is about the license, why can't we put another
license to UCM profiles in the repo, while keeping LGPL for others as
is?  You can declare it in README or maybe better in another text file
to explaining about the licenses in the repository.

I'm asking it because, possibly, UCM syntax may be extended in future,
and then there is mismatch with UCM profile and parser.  By providing
in a single repo, at least, we can avoid the mismatch in the source
level.

Other than that, I myself have no objection to factor out to another
repo.  But, as previously mentioned, it's rather a request to
Jaroslav, who maintains the repositories in alsa-project.org.


thanks,

Takashi