[alsa-devel] Alsa-Plugin 1.0.25 License

[karina filer]

Thanks for your response.

- K.Filer

On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 9:15 PM Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:

> 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
>