Attachment 52542 Details for Bug 41822 – suggested patch to improve LICENSE information.

[patch] suggested patch to improve LICENSE information.

license.diff (text/plain), 1.88 KB, created by Brian Cameron on 2011-10-19 12:13:51 UTC

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Created: 2011-10-19 12:13:51 UTC

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>--- LICENSE-orig	2011-10-19 13:09:32.895052004 -0500
>+++ LICENSE	2011-10-19 14:11:43.419278423 -0500
>@@ -1,17 +1,35 @@
> All PulseAudio source files are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public
> License. (see file LGPL for details)
> 
>-However, the server side links to the GPL-only library 'libsamplerate' which
>-practically downgrades the license of the server part to GPL (see file GPL for
>-details), exercising section 3 of the LGPL.
>+However, the server side has optional GPL dependencies.  These include the
>+'libsamplerate' library and the bluetooth bluez module.  If these optional
>+dependencies are built with PulseAudio, then this effectively downgrades the
>+license of the server part to GPL (see file GPL for details), exercising
>+section 3 of the LGPL.
> 
> Hence you should treat the client library ('libpulse') of PulseAudio as being
> LGPL licensed and the server part ('libpulsecore') as being GPL licensed. Since
> the PulseAudio daemon and the modules link to 'libpulsecore' they are of course
>-also GPL licensed.
>+also GPL licensed.  If the bluetooth module is built, then the
>+
>+So, the following PulseAudio binaries link against libpulsecore, and
>+are GPL if libpulsecore is built with a GPL dependency:
>+- $(bindir)/pulseaudio
>+- $(libdir)/libpulsecore*
>+- $(libexec)/proximinity-helper binary is also GPL.
>+- $(libexec)/gconf_helper
>+- Many test programs in the tests directory.
> 
> Andre Adrian's echo cancellation implementation is licensed under a less
> restrictive license - see src/modules/echo-cancel/adrian-license.txt for
> details.
> 
>+Also, the following files in PulseAudio use the more permissive MIT license:
>+   - pulseaudio-1.0/src/modules/reserve-monitor.c
>+   - pulseaudio-1.0/src/modules/reserve.c
>+   - pulseaudio-1.0/src/pulsecore/rtkit.c
>+
>+And the following file uses a more permissive Sun license:
>+   - pulseaudio-1.0/src/pulsecore/g711.c:
>+
> -- Lennart Poettering, April 20th, 2006.

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