[vorbis-dev] License and changes (was: DropOgg for MacOS.)

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Lourens Veen wrote:

> Michael Smith wrote:
> > 
> > If there are fixes needed, we'd like to get them into the main
> > distribution. Technically, you have to make available ANY changes, no
> > matter how trivial - but we mostly just want libvorbis to work as-is on
> > pretty much every platform. If you could send a patch with all the
> > required changes, we'd much appreciate it.
> > 
> > Michael
> 
> Hey that's strange. I thought you were allowed to make changes to the
> lib and keep them private, as long as you don't distribute them. But I
> checked the LGPL and you're right, they have to be made available. I
> think this is a bit strange, but I suppose RMS has his reasons.

How do you figure?  As far as I remember, both the GPL and LGPL only kick in
once you distributed your software.  I can do whatever I want to vorbis, but
as soon as I "distribute" (ex: release a program that uses the library) it to
another person, I have to do it in a way that conforms to the LGPL.

The GPL requires nothing of private copies.  It's just that private copies are
only of limited utility to a programmer.


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Stan Seibert

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