[Vorbis-dev] Re: Questions about License and so on.

[Rodrigo Gómez]

> There are two pieces. The vorbistools programs (oggenc, vorbiscomment,
> etc.) are GPL, and so anything that uses it must be. The dlls and
> example code in the sdk (vorbis.dll, vorbisfile.dll, vorbisenc.dll) or
> any build of the same code only requires a copyright acknowedgement.
> Please do go ahead and use those.

Excellent! That's what I had understood at the beggining, but you can never 
be too sure.

Thanks for the info, and thanks also to Michael Smith wich responded me via 
email.

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Rodrigo Gómez
http://rgomez.msa.com.mx/gallery/

"Ralph Giles" <giles at xiph.org> escribió en el mensaje 
news:20041112023308.GA1548 at ghostscript.com...
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 06:20:07PM -0600, Rodrigo G?mez wrote:
>
>> In plain text: can he create and distribute a component that uses the 
>> code
>> available in the Windows SDK, either in the DLL presentation and/or the
>> OBJ/LIB way without any restrictions? Does his code will have to be 
>> GPLed?
>> As far as I undesrstand, there is no restrictions whatsoever with the use 
>> of
>> the vorbis software libraries, other than there is an acknowledgement to
>> Xiph.org for using the codec source, isn't? He is not trying to use or
>> distribute other parts of the SDK (i.e., not vorbistools, etc). The only
>> function of this components will be to encode or decode audio, nothing 
>> more.
>
> There are two pieces. The vorbistools programs (oggenc, vorbiscomment,
> etc.) are GPL, and so anything that uses it must be. The dlls and
> example code in the sdk (vorbis.dll, vorbisfile.dll, vorbisenc.dll) or
> any build of the same code only requires a copyright acknowedgement.
> Please do go ahead and use those.
>
> Hope that helps,
> -r