From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: Alsa : GPL or LGPL ?
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:28:31 +0200
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liste@votreservice.com wrote:
> Wikipedia says Alsa is under the GPL and LGPL ?

Yes, Wikipedia says this.

> Can I use Alsa for recording and playing sound in my proprietary game under
> Linux ?

Yes.  The ALSA user-space library (libasound.so.2) is under the LGPL to
allow this.


HTH
Clemens