[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Audio* Project Needs a Developer or Two

[Junichi Uekawa]

> >> I've checked the licensing, and it's not clear from the webpage;
> >> I gathered that it's not GPL, right ?
> >> Also, using PortAudio means it probably cannot be GPL.
> >
> >I am uneasy about this statement of PortAudio which makes it not BSD:
> >
> >Any person wishing to distribute modifications to the Software is requested to
> > send the modifications to the original developer so that they can be incorpor
> >ated into the canonical version.
> 
> this is a request, not a condition. therefore, it doesn't change the
> license in any way.

If that is a polite and unbinding request, it does not belong to the 
license. It is unclear from the license text alone if the request is 
a requisite for using the software or not.


regards,
	junichi