[flac-dev] Using FLAC encoder in my software

Stéphane Damo stephane.damo at gmail.com
Wed Feb 28 22:56:03 UTC 2018


Thank you for your answer.

FLAC support was requested by one of my users so I'm happy I can answer
positively.

Keep up the good work @Xiph !

On 28 February 2018 at 23:44, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+la at mega-nerd.com>
wrote:

> Stéphane Damo wrote:
>
> > - Should I use libFLAC as static or dynamic library ?
>
> libFALC is BSD licensed. The flac command line program is GPL licened.
>
> Whether you use libFLAC as a static or dynamic library is totally up
> to you.
>
> > - No problem including it in a GPL program ?
>
> No problems as long as you abide by the licenses. There are no issues
> whatsoever using a BSD licensed library (either statically or dynamically
> linked) in a GPL program.
>
> > - I've added Josh Coalson and Xiph.Org Foundation in the credits. Is it
> > enough or should I copy some more legal text somewhere ?
>
> That is more than sufficient.
>
> Erik
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