[vorbis] Quality & Tags

[Beni Cherniavksy]

On 2002-02-02, fungus wrote:

> Moritz Grimm wrote:
>
> > David Gasaway wrote:
> >>I'm also ignorant, so I fail to change the vendor string in the library
> >>(I'm guessing that its hard-coded), encode a few CDs with "-q 7", share
> >>them on a P2P.  What'll you have now?
> >>
> >
> > ... a very unlikely situation. ;)
> >
>
> I don't think we should outlaw something purely on
> the grounds that it *might* be abused.
>
I would put a notice at the head of the licence file reading "If you
derive a version noticably affecting encoder output, please consider
changing the vendor string (see lib/info.c (IIRC)) to indicate that".

Or something like that...  The assumption is that anybody half-way decent
will take a look at the license file before widely distributing a direved
program and that he will have good enough informal judgement to decide
this (we don't want all non-official modifications legally forced to
change the string as then we will end with too many different strings).


-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>
                 (also scben at t2 in Technion)

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