[vorbis-dev] bug fixes in vorbis-tools/share

[Matthijs Laan]

On Sun 21 Oct 2001 21:17:01, volsung at asu.edu wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Matthijs Laan wrote:
> 
>> On Thu 18 Oct 2001 21:49:15, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo at rano.org>
>> wrote: 
>> 
>>> * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>>> modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
>>> published by 
>> 
>> Why not BSD, I wonder...
>> 
>> I'm certainly not going to use this viral code for UTF8 conversions.
>> As this UTF8 conversion seems to require quite a lot of code, I guess
>> a lot of people (who also won't even consider GPL) will just go on
>> creating broken but easy ASCIIZ implementations. I just did, actually.
> 
> But seriously, don't blame this contributor for your program
> limitations.  

Naturally. I didn't mean to blame anyone.

> UTF8 is complicated, but it isn't rocket science.  I'm
> sure you can find a implementation somewhere that would be compatible
> with your licensing philosophy.  Or write your own and release it under
> the license of your choice.  

All good options, and I'm considering both.

But still... I wonder how many others will. I mean - ASCIIZ is easy, and it 
appears to work - why add proper UTF8 support when it seems to be OK?

Matthijs

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