[vorbis-dev] Closed Source Releases (Ekk a LGPL problem)

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, David Terrell wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:06:32PM +0200, David Burnett wrote:
> > Hi every one,
> >     I have an unfortunate need to release a closed source BeOS media codec
> >  for Vorbis, basically I'm using headers under an NDA so I can't release 
> > them.
> >  (Yeah I know closed source boo hiss).
> > So I have a couple of question about what I need to do for all this
> > to be above board.
> 
> As far as I can tell, that's simply not possible under the GPL.
> To meet your qualifications, you'll need to reimplement the vorbis 
> codec from spec.
[snip]

Vorbis *is not* GPLed. It's LGPLed, and that is very differnt.

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