[pulseaudio-discuss] Change the qpaeq license from AGPL to LGPL?

[Jason Newton]

Hi Tanu - this is perfectly acceptable.

-Jason

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A bug was recently filed about the top-level LICENSE file not
> mentioning the AGPL licensing of qpaeq:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92802
>
> I was surprised to find out that qpaeq is licensed under AGPL. While we
> could simply fix the top-level LICENSE file, I would prefer to change
> the qpaeq license to LGPL v2.1 instead to be in line with the rest of
> the PulseAudio code. I don't have anything against AGPL as such, but I
> am against complicating the licensing terms of PulseAudio for no good
> reason.
>
> In order to be able to change the license, we need an explicit
> permission to do so from everyone who holds copyright to any part of
> the code of qpaeq. Below is a list of every qpaeq contributor. I'm not
> sure every small change is copyrightable, but I don't want to ignore
> anyone's contribution at this point. If we don't get the permission
> from everyone, we can at that point discuss if we can change the
> license anyway.
>
> The contributors:
>
> Jason Newton
>
>     added qpaeq script for GUI equalizer control to src/util
>     https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=41853cc7c01d3b400e781bb9db8c09befd04685b
>
>     remove .py extension from qpaeq
>     https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=77c6b696560f460e74af85d069863e8337e99d33
>
>     src/utils/qpaeq: added more friendly error messages to common errors
>     https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=4eb65a0a46bd880faf620db3dff94f82f966bd61
>
> Maarten Bosmans
>
>     qpaeq: Make it python3 and python2 compatible
>     https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=b453e13edef8be95d70d837466e911b883faf476
>
> Arun Raghavan
>
>     utils: Typo fixes in qpaeq
>     https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=bb2e60a142ca0a2f95a168751073e17f7623a552
>
> Matěj Laitl
>
>     qpaeq: Try to load equalizer module before failing, better error messages
>     https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=f36148a82e99b40a0adebfdf10c83e480b484847
>
> Aidan Gauland
>
>     qpaeq: Don't set font-size on widgets
>     https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=be4619e3f7b98a0595418bd7d13b7504ffb5136f
>
> If you're one of the listed contributors, please reply to this mail,
> stating whether you give permission to change the license of the code
> you wrote to LGPL v2.1.
>
> Of course, if anyone (contributor or not) thinks relicensing is a bad
> idea, speak up. We can always just add a note about AGPL to the top-
> level LICENSE.
>
> --
> Tanu
>
> https://www.patreon.com/tanuk