[vorbis] Winamp5

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From: "Michael Smith" <msmith at xiph.org>

> This is WAY off track. LAME isn't GPL - if it were, they couldn't do this.
> LAME is LGPLed, so they can. libvorbis isn't LGPLed OR GPLed - it's under
a

I admit it, I missed an L.  I got to reading the GPL in the quote.

> much much less restrictive license, which pretty much allows them to do
> whatever they want with it with no restrictions.

Right.  I knew that but my brain wasn't working.

The point was they can easily handle situations involving including a fully
functional encoder without giving access to it.

If they wanted to make vorbis strictly a 'pay' item, then could easily wrap
it with a reg check etc. without giving it away.

I seriously doubt that Winamp has any sort of exlusitivity for AAC in the
free version of WinAmp, thus they could include vorbis.

But this has gotten a wee bit off topic.

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