portaudio in Debian, license updates?

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,

> > On Thursday 16 February 2006 22:49, Junichi Uekawa was like:
> >>>>Audio on the other hand seems to have mostly settled for ALSA and jack.
> >>>>(I'm not sure if portaudio is gone?)
> > Things like portaudio and MIDIshare never really arrived. (OK, I'm 
> > exaggerating slightly - Doesn't Audacity use portaudio?)
> 
> Audacity does use portaudio. Portaudio isn't dead and gone, but 
> development is barely progressing. With portaudio-v19 audacity can use 
> jack. The current portaudio snapshot seems to work ok, though audacity 
> still creates and destroys jack ports with every record/play action. I 
> don't know if there is any plan for an eventual release date of v19.

However, portaudio looks non-free to me.

http://www.portaudio.com/license.html:
    * 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.

c.f. 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/11/msg00091.html


However, it's included in Debian main, as part of source to audacity,
and libportaudio.  strange.

I'm sending mail to request updated information on this topic; I don't
know how this resolved.


regards,
	junichi
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