2009/4/10 Bill Stoddard <[email protected]> > > 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 > Thanks， May Confucius be with me.^_^
> > Bill > -- Bowen Ma a.k.a Samul Kevin @ Bluesky Dev Team XJTU
