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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: ALSA license
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:13:34 +0200
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To: "Li, Steve" <Steve.Li@imaginecommunications.com>, "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>
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Li, Steve wrote:
> I am trying to use ALSA in a commercial application. I see that in the
> introduction page, ALSA is licensed under GPL and LGPL. Can you tell
> me which part of ALSA is licensed under LGPL?

The ALSA library itself is licensed under the LGPL, so your closed-
source application can link to libasound.so.2.  Other parts of ALSA
(kernel drivers, plugins, etc.) are GPL.


Regards,
Clemens