On Monday 02 June 2008 21:37:13 Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> Romain Beauxis wrote:
> > Le Monday 02 June 2008 04:04:51 Hannu Savolainen, vous avez écrit :
> >
> >>> First of all, concerning the licence:
> >>> * Is it the whole code GPLed ? (naive question)
> >>> I mean that even if the global licence is GPL, there could be other parts
> >>> which are not GPL. This could also include the documentation that could
> >>> be GFDL for instance.. Those licencing questions are very important for
> >>> an inclusion, and often thake time to check (and are really boring too),
> >>> so your help is welcome here :)
> >>>
> >>>
> >> There are some closed source packages in OSS but they are not included
> >> in the tarballs. So all drivers included in the GPL source package are
> >> under GPL. Some header files and/or sample programs may be under the BSD
> >> license but all this code is for user land only.
> >>
> >
> > Well, that's what I was afraid of.. The debian/copyright file has to report
> > each file's licence if it differs from main licence. I means I'll have to
> > go
> > through each of them to check the licence..
> >
> There is no need for that. Just don't include anything that is located
> under the tutorials/ or utils/ subdirectories. All the other files are
> under GPL.
What about include/soundcard.h?
Yours,
Yair K.
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