All authors have agreed to the relicensing.
The code was pretty much rewritten by Stefano Pigozzi. Since the rewrite
happened incrementally, and seems to include refactored portions of
older code, this relicensing was done on the pre-refactor code do.
The original commit adding this AO (as ao_macosx.c) credits Timothy J.
Wood as original author. He was asked and agreed to LGPL. It's not
entirely sure from which project this code came from, but it's probably
libao. In that project, Stanley Seibert made some changes to it (who as
a major developer of libao was asked just to be sure), and also Ralph
Giles and Ben Hines made two small changes. The latter were not asked,
but none of their code survived anyway.
Long planned. Leads to some sanity.
There still are some rather gross things. Especially g_groups is ugly,
and a hack that can hopefully be removed. (There is a plan for it, but
whether it's implemented depends on how much energy is left.)
wm4
Aman Gupta