Re: Problem with licence of Portaudio
Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> Hi
> I'm packaging portaudio (ITP #269925), and have been informed by Junichi
> Uekawa that there might be a problem with the license. It's basically a
> BSD license with the following additional clause:
>
> Any person wishing to distribute modifications to the Software is
> requested to send the modifications to the original developer so that
> they can be incorporated into the canonical version.
>
> I have included the license last in this message, and it's also available
> online at http://www.portaudio.com/license.html with "plain English
> interpretation". It's not completely clear if the clause is a requirement
> or not. My question is, can PortAudio go into the main distribution?
It does not appear to be a requirement. It appears to be simply a request.
Note the word "requested". If so, then it's fine and can go in 'main'.
> Actually PortAudio is already distributed in Debian, both in source and
> binary form, since it's part of Audacity. But the copyright file in
> Audacity doesn't contain the PortAudio license which it should.
Oops. That's a bug which should be fixed.
>
> Regards,
> Mikael Magnusson
>
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> PortAudio copyright and license:
>
> PortAudio Portable Real-Time Audio Library
> Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Ross Bencina and Phil Burk
>
> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
> a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
> "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
> without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
> distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
> permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
> the following conditions:
>
> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
> included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
>
> Any person wishing to distribute modifications to the Software is
> requested to send the modifications to the original developer so that
> they can be incorporated into the canonical version.
>
> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
> EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
> MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ON INFRINGEMENT.
> IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
> CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
> TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
> SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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