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. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com "Welcome to Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!"
