From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Ossi Niiranen <oniiranen@neolex.fi>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: GPL/LGPL licensing of the Alsa library
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:00:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D904E11.8020003@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5B9D7D28-C10D-42D5-9BB1-675103BC0957@neolex.fi>
Ossi Niiranen wrote:
> We recently performed a licensing audit of a larger software project
> incorporating the Alsa library 1.0.19. One issue we identified was
> that although the Alsa library purported to state that the library was
> licensed under the LGPL, there were still several files with third
> party copyright holders that indicated in their header that the file
> in question was licensed under the GPL.
$ grep -rl 'GNU General' alsa-lib/
alsa-lib/COPYING
alsa-lib/aserver/COPYING
alsa-lib/aserver/aserver.c
alsa-lib/include/sound/asequencer.h
alsa-lib/include/sound/asound.h
alsa-lib/include/sound/asound_fm.h
alsa-lib/include/sound/asoundef.h
alsa-lib/include/sound/emu10k1.h
alsa-lib/include/sound/hdsp.h
alsa-lib/include/sound/hdspm.h
alsa-lib/include/sound/sb16_csp.h
alsa-lib/m4/attributes.m4
alsa-lib/src/ucm/main.c
alsa-lib/src/ucm/parser.c
alsa-lib/src/ucm/ucm_local.h
alsa-lib/src/ucm/utils.c
alsa-lib/test/latency.c
alsa-lib/test/oldapi.c
alsa-lib/test/playmidi1.c
The aserver tool and the tests are separate and not part of the library
itself; the UCM stuff is actually LGPL-licensed and mentions the GPL
only in "You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License ...".
Most files in include/sound/ are just copies of the kernel headers.
Is there any specific file that you think would make the resulting
library not LGPL?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-28 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-28 8:37 GPL/LGPL licensing of the Alsa library Ossi Niiranen
2011-03-28 8:49 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2011-03-28 9:00 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2011-03-28 9:07 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2011-03-28 9:19 ` Ossi Niiranen
2011-03-28 11:29 ` Takashi Iwai
2011-04-11 5:27 ` Ossi Niiranen
2011-04-11 13:58 ` Clemens Ladisch
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