portaudio in Debian, license updates?

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, I wasn't aware of that. Who are you mailing? I've had a few 
contacts with the main authors since RFA hosts the portaudio mailing 
list. If I can be of assistance let me know.

-Eric Rz.