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 > > -- > 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. -- This space intentionally left blank.
