[Theora] Theora, great stuff!

Nick Hill t0 at nickhill.co.uk
Mon Aug 22 06:22:46 PDT 2005


Michael Smith wrote:
> We can make an argument, though, that adoption of theora will
> (roughly) follow adoption patterns that the vorbis codec did. And we
> clearly saw more adoption of the vorbis codec as a _direct_ result of
> relicensing from LGPL to our current BSD-style license. This is the
> major reason why our later codecs (including theora) have chosen this
> BSD-style license to begin with (relicensing is a pain!).

Can/did you deduce any patterns as to who is reluctant to use LGPL code, 
and did they give any reasons?

Regards


Nick.


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