[Buildroot] [PATCH 4/5] portaudio: add license information
Baruch Siach
baruch at tkos.co.il
Thu May 23 07:09:18 UTC 2013
Hi Yann,
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 08:59:04AM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> On 2013-05-22 17:24 -0700, Gilles Talis spake thusly:
> > Signed-off-by: Gilles Talis <gilles.talis at gmail.com>
> > ---
> > package/portaudio/portaudio.mk | 2 ++
> > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/package/portaudio/portaudio.mk b/package/portaudio/portaudio.mk
> > index 34b0bd9..917702e 100644
> > --- a/package/portaudio/portaudio.mk
> > +++ b/package/portaudio/portaudio.mk
> > @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ PORTAUDIO_SITE = http://www.portaudio.com/archives
> > PORTAUDIO_SOURCE = pa_stable_$(PORTAUDIO_VERSION).tgz
> > PORTAUDIO_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
> > PORTAUDIO_MAKE = $(MAKE1)
> > +PORTAUDIO_LICENSE = MIT
>
> This is not really MIT, since there is additional text:
>
> ---8<---
> * The text above constitutes the entire PortAudio license; however,
> * the PortAudio community also makes the following non-binding
> * requests:
> *
> * 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. It is also
> * requested that these non-binding requests be included along with the
> * license above.
> ---8<---
>
> So I'd say:
> PORTAUDIO_LICENSE = portaudio license (MIT-like plus special clause)
>
> (which by the way makes it non-free software.)
Well, the text you cite says explicitly that these are "non-binding requests".
Would you still consider this non-free?
baruch
--
http://baruch.siach.name/blog/ ~. .~ Tk Open Systems
=}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{=
- baruch at tkos.co.il - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il -
More information about the buildroot
mailing list