TINF-226: resolve conflict between pulseausio alsa configs and mmfw-sysconf-panda...

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+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,13 +1,30 @@
 All PulseAudio source files are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public
 License. (see file LGPL for details)
 
-However, the server side links to the GPL-only library 'libsamplerate' which
-practically downgrades the license of the server part to GPL (see file GPL for
-details), exercising section 3 of the LGPL.
+However, the server side has optional GPL dependencies.  These include the
+libsamplerate and gdbm (core libraries), LIRC (lirc module), FFTW (equalizer
+module) and bluez (bluetooth proximity helper program) libraries, although
+others may also be included in the future.  If PulseAudio is compiled with these
+optional components, this effectively downgrades the license of the server part
+to GPL (see the file GPL for details), exercising section 3 of the LGPL.  In
+such circumstances, you should treat the client library (libpulse) of PulseAudio
+as being LGPL licensed and the server part (libpulsecore) as being GPL licensed.
+Since the PulseAudio daemon, tests, various utilities/helpers and the modules
+link to libpulsecore and/or the afore mentioned optional GPL dependencies they
+are of course also GPL licensed also in this scenario.
 
-Hence you should treat the client library ('libpulse') of PulseAudio as being
-LGPL licensed and the server part ('libpulsecore') as being GPL licensed. Since
-the PulseAudio daemon and the modules link to 'libpulsecore' they are of course
-also GPL licensed.
+Andre Adrian's echo cancellation implementation is licensed under a less
+restrictive license - see src/modules/echo-cancel/adrian-license.txt for
+details.
 
--- Lennart Poettering, April 20th, 2006.
+Some other files pulled into PA source (i.e. reference implementations that are
+considered too small and stable to be considered as an external library) use the
+more permissive MIT license. This include the device reservation DBus protocol
+and realtime kit implementations.
+
+Additionally, a more permissive Sun license is used for code that performs
+u-law, A-law and linear PCM conversions.
+
+While we attempt to provide a summary here, it is the ultimate responsibility of
+the packager to ensure the components they use in their build of PulseAudio
+meets their license requirements.