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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: "Li, Steve" <Steve.Li@imaginecommunications.com>,
	"alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>
Subject: Re: ALSA license
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:13:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56FD308E.8090006@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CD7D8096827214EA72BFDC6B95C7CC931B5654F@VEREXCH02.harrisbroadcast.com>

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

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-31 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-29 19:06 ALSA license Li, Steve
2016-03-31  1:46 ` Takashi Sakamoto
2016-03-31 14:04   ` Li, Steve
2016-03-31 14:13 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]

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