> -----Original Message-----
> From: Takashi Iwai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 12 September 2001 16:08
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Cc: Paul Davis; Phil Thompson
> Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] User Space Device Driver 
> 
> 
> At Wed, 12 Sep 2001 09:56:15 -0400,
> Paul Davis wrote:
> > 
> > >> alsalib is released under the GPL. hence, any 
> applications that to use
> > >> it must be under the GPL. since such an application 
> would clearly be
> > >> utterly designed around the alsalib and alsa kernel API, 
> you could not
> > >> use dynamic linking to circumvent this.
> > >
> > >As alsalib is released under the LGPL, apps that use it 
> don't need to be
> > >under the GPL.
> > 
> > Oops. The source code is actually under mixed licenses. I looked at 
> > alsa-lib/src/output.c, for example. Looking inside 
> alsa-lib/src/*/*.c,
> > it seems to be all LGPL.
> 
> I guess it's just the result of wrong copy & paste...
> IIRC, it was confirmed on ML that alsa-lib is under LGPL.
> So all library codes should include LGPL declarations.

Does that include the OSS compatibility library that is currently under the
GPL?

Phil

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