[Savannah-hackers] [gnu.org #212154] license of portaudio

[Dave Turner via RT]

This is a Free Software license, compatible with the GPL.

> address@hidden - Sun Oct 10 20:58:33 2004]:
> 
> PortAudio (www.portaudio.com) has a license which seems
> GPL-incompatible and possibly non-free. The license is at
> http://www.portaudio.com/license.html. We want to make sure if it is
> non-free or not so that we can decide if PortAudio can be used as a
> dependency by a free software.
> 
> I have included the PortAudio license verbatim for your convineince:
> 
> 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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> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Alaska Subedi
> 
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> 
> 
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-Dave "Novalis" Turner
GPL Compliance Engineer
Free Software Foundation