[linux-audio-dev] The beginnings of an ladcca manual

Paul Winkler pw_lists at slinkp.com
Wed Dec 11 14:00:01 UTC 2002


On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 04:31:24PM +0000, Bob Ham wrote:
> of ladcca will have libladcca under the LGPL license.  I do still not want
> cubase if it's under proprietary license, and I do still very much fear a
> linux-audio-dev world dominated by proprietary licenses, but libladcca under
> the GPL will probably make things worse for free audio software, I see this
> now.  Oh the woes of a proprietary software world :)

Ogg is an interesting example of these issues. The Ogg team were
worried that GPL would hurt their ability to get Ogg widely adopted,
which was clearly a priority given the icky license issues around
MP3.  They ended up with:

- the Ogg Vorbis spec is in the public domain.
- the "reference" encoder and decoder software are under the GPL.
- the libraries and SDKs developed by the Ogg team are under
  a BSDish license.
 
I think they did a pretty good job of weighing the issues
and coming up with something that optimally promotes open
standards and free software.

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