Julf wrote: > Closed binary software, as long as you pay licence fee. MQA has closed source libraries for most intel & arm linux platforms
One manufacturer of music servers in this list is selling the open source MPD (music player daemon) as their own player without telling their customers. The customers box does not include the GPL license or modified source code. Same applies for the website and manuals: it's all hidden from the audiohile buyer that they use an existing OSS player. They have announced to decode MQA in their products, which means they will add the closed source decoder to MPD 0.17 which they use, as there's no other way to decode MQA from within MPD (mpd is both server and player in one binary). MPD can't call an external player to do the work, all new formats and decoders have to be added to the decoderlist files in the source tree. So even though it is closed software, as soon as you integrate closed software like MQA into GPLv2 or v3, the whole modified work has to be released under the GPL. So as soon as someone makes this mistake, you can obtain the source as it is a derived work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ins236's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65454 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102648 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
