ref: 1593a449e4cb960717b26a74de2117b9d798656d
parent: 0cb1d63a2c8324e534e6fa1f68090c84986bc29f
author: rrt <rrt>
date: Wed Dec 6 15:15:39 EST 2006
Clarify, remove note about FFT.c which doesn't apply any more, and add a note about external libraries which have other licenses or may have licensing problems.
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
-SoX source code is distributed under two main licenses. The two
-types of licenses are described in detail in the files
-LICENSE.GPL and LICENSE.LGPL.
+SoX source code is distributed under two main licenses. The two
+licenses are in the files LICENSE.GPL and LICENSE.LGPL.
-sox.c, and thus SoX-the user application, is distributed under the GPL.
+sox.c, and thus SoX-the user application, is distributed under the
+GPL, while the files that make up libst are licensed under the less
+restrictive LGPL.
-The remaining files that make up libst are licensed under the less
-restrictive license LGPL.
-
-There is currently only one exception to this. The files FFT.c and
-FFT.h are original from the Audacity program and fall under its
-license of GPL. The noise profiling and noise reduction effects
-both make use of this FFT code and would need to be removed from
-any program that requires LGPL only software.
+Note that some of the external packages that can be linked in to libst
+are GPLed and/or may have licensing problems, so they can be disabled
+at configure time with the relevant--with-* options.