2009/4/10 Bill Stoddard <[email protected]>
My concern is not with the team... my concern is with the technology, or to
be precise, my concern is with the licensing of the technology. The ASF
places restrictions on what kind of software licenses we can use. Can we
find suitable alternatives to the GPL components Bluesky relies on? I am
waiting on the team to tell me. If the answer is no, then we have to face
up to reality... there is no shame in admitting defeat if there are forces
beyond our control guiding our choices. We can move the project to a
different venue (sourceforge maybe?) and distribute Bluesky as GPL code? I
don't want to admit defeat just yet... I hope the team can solve the
problem... but if solving the problem means reinventing ffmpeg, with a
different license, then we really cannot succeed, can we? What other
alternatives do we have?
i remember that BSD license does not conflict with ASL. And Theora and
Vorbis are both BSD-like . Though it needs discussion in legal-disuss to
decide whether it is available under ASL . Personally, i assure about that.
The ASF can redistribute code under a BSD-like license. No problem with
that.
So if we could prove that FFmpeg could be replaced by Theora and Vorbis,
this problem surely can be solved. I will start the comparion after i finish
coding a moldue, which probably would be completed tonight. The only thing i
am concerned is that i can't forecast the time this comparison takes....
Good Luck
Bill
