[Vorbis-dev] Issue with the "Xiph license"

[Sebastian Pipping]

Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:
> On 3/16/07, Ralph Giles <giles at xiph.org> wrote:
>> url?
>
> It's actually an e-mail discussion Sebastian invited me into.
>
> I suppose they have discussed it at one of their mailing lists,
> though.  I'll see if I find a link on their archives.

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It seems the major Xiph packages are now licensed under
"BSD" at Gentoo, at least these three:
 * http://gentoo-portage.com/media-libs/libtheora
 * http://gentoo-portage.com/media-libs/libvorbis
 * http://gentoo-portage.com/media-libs/speex


I hope Steve doesn't mind being quoted here:

Steve Dibb wrote:
> [..]
>
> Since the "Xiph BSD" license as we have it[1] is simply filling in the
> placeholders on the BSD license[2], I'm going to change all the ebuilds
> using "xiph" to "BSD", as was originally suggested.
>
> We're not going to keep different BSD-variant licenses when the only
> thing that is different is the copyright owner.
>
> If Xiph does have a derivative license that varies in more than
> cosmetics, then yes, we'll put that in the tree and change the licenses.
>
> [..]
>
> 1.
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/licenses/xiph?rev=1.1&view=markup
>
> 2.
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/licenses/BSD?rev=1.4&view=markup



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