Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add AlsaModularSynth.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

>> From 79a6aa562688c02bd4c50035a971478a2f2331e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 21:52:10 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add zita-alsa-pcmi.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/audio.scm (zita-alsa-pcmi): New variable.
>
> [...]
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>> +    (license license:gpl3)))
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> GPLv3-only?

No, the files in the tarball say "or later".  Sorry about that.

>> +    (inputs
>> +     `(("alsa-lib" ,alsa-lib)
>> +       ("fftw" ,fftw)
>> +       ("jack" ,jack-1)
>> +       ("ladspa" ,ladspa)
>> +       ("liblo" ,liblo)
>> +       ("qt" ,qt-4)
>> +       ("zita-alsa-pcmi" ,zita-alsa-pcmi)))
>
> This one must be GPLv2+, otherwise there’d be problems combining it with
> the first one.

Indeed.  Unfortunately, GPLv2-only is actually correct.  The file
headers all say

  ams is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
  published by the Free Software Foundation.

I contacted the author to ask if relicensing is an option, but it seems
that at least two more authors are involved.

Luckily, AMS could also be built against clalsadrv, the deprecated
predecessor of zita-alsa-pcmi.  I'll package that up and replace the
input for alsa-modular-synth.

~~ Ricardo