Re: portaudio license

[Dave Cunningham <spark@xdev.net>]

>The main problem seems to be that while the sentence itself says "request",
>it's under a non-request "conditions" heading.  Moving the request away
>from that--preferably out of the license entirely--should be enough.

Ok so this compromise should be ok:



PortAudio Portable Real-Time Audio Library
Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Ross Bencina and Phil Burk

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