[Flac] flac (encoder, analyzer, decoder) tool now (also) available in JavaScript‏

[Martijn van Beurden]

You might want to send this to the flac-dev list too. This list 
is pretty quiet.

Op 12-01-15 om 00:12 schreef Rainer Rillke:
> After compiling opusenc.js to JavaScript [1], now the flac 
> tool is also available [2][3], too.
>
> s/Check out/Clone/ https://github.com/Rillke/flac.js !
>
> I am slightly nervous about its license, the GPL and what 
> CloudFlare is doing: It's melting a lot of content together 
> into one file and adding JavaScript that doesn't appear to be 
> GPL or compatibly licensed -- by any chance, is there a 
> possibility to get an exception (e.g. LGPL license) for 
> JavaScript versions? It's also an issue to what happens in 
> proprietary browsers, or more specifically in browsers with 
> proprietary JavaScript VM, when they optimize code and insert 
> custom assets. In theory, users of them can't abide with the 
> licensing terms and use the tool online[5]. Advice welcome.
>
> Another thing is the flac website[4] being GPL licensed, too. 
> Of course one may quote from it; however things would be 
> easier if it would be dual licensed, with something, say 
> cc-by-sa 3.0 in addition.
>
> Finally, thanks for the great free tools, Xiph.
>
> -- Rillke
>
> [1] http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/opus/2014-December/002824.html
> [2] https://github.com/Rillke/flac.js
> [3] https://blog.rillke.com/flac.js/
> [4] https://xiph.org/flac/index.html
> [5] http://stackoverflow.com/a/1239727/2683737
>
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