[vorbis] need feedback on OGG info page

[Monty]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 06:35:28PM +0100, Moritz Grimm wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > Quote from your page:
> > "The Vorbis encoding techniques are released under the GPL/LGPL license"...
> > I think they shifted from GLP/LGPL to BSD since beta4. This is mentioned in
> > the binaryfreedom interview.
> 
> As far as I understood all that license stuff, only the decoding
> routines have been moved to BSD ... to enable game companies to use
> vorbis playback in proprietary software. Noone will ever have to make
> the encoder closed-source, so the BSD license isn't needed there and
> GPL/LGPL ensures that Vorbis encoders stay free.
> 
> Did I get this right?

The libraries, encode and decode, are all BSD now.

Monty

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