[alsa-devel] Alsa-Plugin 1.0.25 License

[Takashi Iwai]

On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 17:36:06 +0200,
Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> 
> One more comment...
> 
> On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 16:20 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 22:44 +0530, karina filer wrote:
> > > Hi Team,
> > > 
> > > Greetings !!
> > > 
> > > I am facing difficulty to understand the Alsa-Plugin Licensing, Could you
> > > please help me to make understand?, Is it under GPL 2.0 or LGPL 2.1 because
> > > after extracting the folder I can see 2 copying file one for GPL and other
> > > for LGPL.
> > > 
> > > https://repology.org/project/alsa-plugins/packages
> > 
> > alsa-plugins seems to lack a README or other overview document about
> > the licensing... alsa-plugins is primarily licensed under LGPL 2.1, and
> > to my knowledge the only exception is the libsamplerate based rate
> > plugin. The licensing is explained here:
> > 
> > https://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-plugins.git;a=blob;f=rate/rate_samplerate.c
> > 
> > So this particluar rate plugin is licensed under GPL 2.0 "to follow the
> > license of libsamplerate", unless you have a commercial license to
> > libsamplerate. I don't think the rationale for that exception makes
> > much sense (LGPL would have worked just fine, as far as I can tell),
> > but at this point relicensing may be very difficult due to many
> > contributors.
> 
> Relicensing shouldn't be that hard after all, if that's desired (I
> think it would be a good idea). Now that I looked, there actually
> aren't many contributors to that plugin, only Takashi and Jaroslav.
> Diego E. 'Flameeyes' Pettenò also has a commit, but it only changes one
> line in the build system.

I don't mind relicensing at all.  But the only concern is that no one
but for lawyers can confirm its validity...


thanks,

Takashi