portaudio license

[Mikael Magnusson]

George Danchev wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> Reviewing again #354899 it seems to me that Junichi is right. To quote the 
> license again: 
> 
> ===
> 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.
> ===
> 
> Contributing back to upstream is a request, but it is also a _condition_ (as 
> spelled above) and this is mandatory and unavoidable condition to use, copy, 
> modify, and so on ... that software. These conditions are unavoidable and if 
> the copyright holders are so scrupulous they should already reconsider their 
> license and removed any ambiguity found it or use a already proven free 
> software license. I'm personally afraid to touch such "free" bits which 
> suddenly become non-free at some future point and/or exotic jurisdiction.
> 

It looks like upstream is going to change the license. In the V19 
release plan[1] one of the tasks is 'Remove "request for source code 
contributions from license"'

Mikael

[1]http://www.portaudio.com/trac/wiki/V19ReleasePlan