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Problem with licence of Portaudio



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?

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.

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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