[oss-devel] Preparing an official package..

[Yair K.]

On Monday 02 June 2008 21:37:13 Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> Romain Beauxis wrote:
> > Le Monday 02 June 2008 04:04:51 Hannu Savolainen, vous avez écrit :
> >   
> >>> First of all, concerning the licence:
> >>>  * Is it the whole code GPLed ? (naive question)
> >>> I mean that even if the global licence is GPL, there could be other parts
> >>> which are not GPL. This could also include the documentation that could
> >>> be GFDL for instance.. Those licencing questions are very important for
> >>> an inclusion, and often thake time to check (and are really boring too),
> >>> so your help is welcome here :)
> >>>  
> >>>       
> >> There are some closed source packages in OSS but they are not included
> >> in the tarballs. So all drivers included in the GPL source package are
> >> under GPL. Some header files and/or sample programs may be under the BSD
> >> license but all this code is for user land only.
> >>     
> >
> > Well, that's what I was afraid of.. The debian/copyright file has to report 
> > each file's licence if it differs from main licence. I means I'll have to go 
> > through each of them to check the licence..
> >   
> There is no need for that. Just don't include anything that is located 
> under the tutorials/ or utils/ subdirectories. All the other files are 
> under GPL.

What about include/soundcard.h?

Yours,
	Yair K.