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diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE new file mode 100644 index 00000000..612c2341 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +All PulseAudio source files are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public +License. (see file LGPL for details) + +However, the server side links to the GPL-only library 'libsamplerate' which +practically downgrades the license of the server part to GPL (see file GPL for +details), exercising section 3 of the LGPL. + +Hence you should treat the client library ('libpulse') of PulseAudio as being +LGPL licensed and the server part ('libpulsecore') as being GPL licensed. Since +the PulseAudio daemon and the modules link to 'libpulsecore' they are of course +also GPL licensed. + +-- Lennart Poettering, April 20th, 2006. |