[vorbis] Ogg FLAC

Per Wigren wigren at home.se
Wed Oct 17 10:28:46 PDT 2001



Yes, the software is Free (BSD-like), but the product is polluted by patents.

"Adopter neither grants nor receives, by implication, or estoppel, or 
otherwise, any rights under any patents, copyrights, or other intellectual 
property rights."

// Wigren

Wednesday 17 October 2001 19.12 skrev du:
> >Per Wigren wrote:
> >Looked through the license and it seems that it is heavily
> >patented. So screw it! :-p
>
> "...The AAF SDK is licensed under a perpetual, royalty-free license. Users
> are allowed to download source code, make derivative works, include these
> works in their products and charge for these works."
>
> So how is this much different than a BSD license? (BTW: I know very little
> about licenses... :)
>
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