[Xiph-Advocacy] Re: [Speex-dev] Microsoft RTAudio

[Shawn K. Quinn]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 20:20 +0200, Maik Merten wrote:
> Aaron Whitehouse schrieb:
> > Just to batter the other side of that point, our codecs are
> installed
> > in games because it makes economic sense, not through some socialist
> > ideology.
> 
> And of course a BSD-style license for all codecs was chosen exactly
> for
> the reason to enable commercial applications to use xiph.org codecs
> without any headaches IIRC.

Don't mix up "commercial" and "proprietary". Many free software
applications are developed commercially. 

That said, we definitely lose more freedom overall trying to keep the
reference format encoder/decoder GPL-free or even LGPL-free as companies
like Microsoft loathe releasing source code, much less actually sharing
the same freedom they have. (One can even argue the "headaches" are
mostly or at least partially their own doing.)

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at speakeasy.net>