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On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Grekim  wrote:
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>  Please, read the GPL again, all versions.  GPLv3 in particular gives the

> legal teams at places like the Free Software Foundation or the Electronic

> Freedom Foundation, the legal power, if you assign the copyrights to them

> (this is required so they have standing in a court of law to bring the suit

> in the first place), to go after the thieves and cheats.  Generally they

> get compliance with the GPL, but there have also been some cases where the

> violators have been fined some quite decent sums of money.  You won't get

> much if anything, but rest assured, the thieves and cheats WILL be brought

> to heel, at no cost to you.

>

> There are exceptions to that of course, does anyone here remember how much

> those 2 blackbox coders collected?

>

> Cheers, Gene

>

>

>  Thanks Gene.   I'm going to need to read that about 25 times before I

> get a full handle on it.  But, in a moment of panic here I am wondering if

> I am violating GPL by using some ALSA functions in my code?

>

Like many libraries, the ALSA library is released under the LGPL.
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