[vorbis-dev] Vorbis license terms?

[David Terrell]

I guess my BSD-licensed, horribly-unfree software can't use your project,
eh?

If you want vorbis to become a standard, the best thing you can do is 
BSD license it, to encourage adoption.  Pushing a project and a political
agenda at the same time willl only hurt both goals.

Not that I'm trying to spark a license flamewar here, sorry.  Please take
my comments with a grain of salt, at best. :)

On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 07:15:46PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> 
> Taint is good. More free software!
> 
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Steve Anichini wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Are there any thoughts to changing the license used by Vorbis from the GPL
> > to the LGPL? As it stands, linking to libvorbis will taint any program. I'd
> > like to research using Vorbis and contribute to it, but I'm not at the
> > liberty to GPL the engine I'd like to link with libvorbis. The GPL prevents
> > me from using it. The LGPL would still protect the Vorbis code while
> > allowing non-GPL'd apps to link to it.
> > 
> > Just something for consideration...


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