2011-07-20 05:12:51

by chanyeol

Subject: Question about bluez audio plug-in license

Hello

I have a question about bluez audio plug-in license. Is it possible to use
bluez audio plug-in as LGPL? About half year ago I saw bluez and pulseaudio
introduced ?a2dp-codecs.h?. As far as I understand bluez audio plug-in
license could be LGPL. However the header file license is GPL.

and I think even if we use MediaEndpoint with dbus, we need to include
?a2dp-codec.h?.

If you know, could you explain this?

Thanks
Chanyeol Park

2011-07-20 10:53:24

by chanyeol

Subject: Re: Question about bluez audio plug-in license

Hi

2011/7/20 Marcel Holtmann <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
>
>> I have a question about bluez audio plug-in license. Is it possible to u=
se
>> bluez audio plug-in as LGPL? About half year ago I saw bluez and pulseau=
dio
>> introduced =93a2dp-codecs.h=94. As far as I understand bluez audio plug-=
in
>> license could be LGPL. However the header file license is GPL.
>>
>> and I think even if we use MediaEndpoint with dbus, we need to include
>> =93a2dp-codec.h=94.
>>
>> If you know, could you explain this?
>
> the specific file a2dp-codec.h can be easily licensed under LGPL. Same
> as with rth.h. Both file are clearly an oversight on our part. Code that
> is shared between PA and BlueZ should be LGPL license. For the SBC
> encoder/decoder and IPC parts we have done that right. So yes, we can
> just re-license these two header files.

Where could I find "rth.h"? Will you change license of "a2dp-codec.h"?

>
> However for the whole audio plugin, no that is GPL only.
>
> Regards
>
> Marcel
>
>
>

Regards

Chanyeol Park

2011-07-20 10:13:44

by Marcel Holtmann

Subject: Re: Question about bluez audio plug-in license

Hi,

> I have a question about bluez audio plug-in license. Is it possible to use
> bluez audio plug-in as LGPL? About half year ago I saw bluez and pulseaudio
> introduced “a2dp-codecs.h”. As far as I understand bluez audio plug-in
> license could be LGPL. However the header file license is GPL.
>
> and I think even if we use MediaEndpoint with dbus, we need to include
> “a2dp-codec.h”.
>
> If you know, could you explain this?

the specific file a2dp-codec.h can be easily licensed under LGPL. Same
as with rth.h. Both file are clearly an oversight on our part. Code that
is shared between PA and BlueZ should be LGPL license. For the SBC
encoder/decoder and IPC parts we have done that right. So yes, we can
just re-license these two header files.

However for the whole audio plugin, no that is GPL only.

Regards

Marcel