Re: LICENSE of portaudio (Re: [PATCH] audio/portaudio-devel (Re: wip/fldigi has problem on Mac OS X 10.6.8

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 11:21:23AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Makoto Fujiwara <makoto%ki.nu@localhost> writes:
> 
> > But portaudio clearly has LICENSE.txt. And it seems to me,
> > almost no limitation except:
> >
> >  * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
> >  * included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
> 
> My point was that lack of limitation is not the same as affirmative
> permission.
> 
> I unpacked the current portaudio-devel, and found LICENSE.txt.  It looks
> like a free license, granting the usual permissions.  I copied it to a
> file and removed the comment syntax, and then ran wdiff -3 against all
> the existing licenses.  The shortest diff (ls -lS), more or less, is to
> /usr/pkgsrc/licenses/mit:
> 
>   ======================================================================
>   [-The MIT License-]{+PortAudio Portable Real-Time Audio Library
>   Latest version at: http://www.audiomulch.com/portaudio/
>   <platform> Implementation+}
>   ======================================================================
>    [-<year> <copyright holders>-] {+1999-2000 <author(s)>+}
>   ======================================================================
> 
> 
>   {+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.+}
>   ======================================================================
> 
> So if this is unchanged, it should just get LICENSE=mit.

No. The above is much stronger than mit and more like the GPL.

Joerg