[Vorbis] Bitrate Peeling (no. really)

[Christopher John Harrington]

BSD would be fine (I made those changes to the Wiki), and I'll ammend 
that. My intention was (of course) to have everything be open-source, as 
otherwise it would be ambiguous whether that was required. (And we 
wouldn't want someone reaching all the criteria, and come to find out 
they close all the source on the utilities.)

I would like the utilites themselves (the work independant of the 
libraries) to be GPL, but I guess I'm flexable on that. After all, it's 
not just my money.

And no, we don't plan on implementing this into the firmware at all. Why 
would we?

(By the by, the firmware is already open under the Sleepycat licence... 
http://neuros-firmware.sourceforge.net/ )

-Chris

Christoph Rupp wrote:
> on http://wiki.xiph.org/Bounties#Ogg_Vorbis_Bitrate_Peeling it says:
> 
> 4. All work submitted must be licenced under the GPL or compatable 
> licence (excepting circumstances where other licences conflict)
> 
> since the peeler would be an update for the encoding libraries, it has 
> to be a BSD licence, right? and since the original poster wanted to use 
> it for commercial purposes (for a handheld device?) he most likely won't 
> like a GPL library, because then he would have to release the whole 
> firmware in GPL.
> 
> wouldn't it be safer to change (4) to
> 
> All work submitted must be licenced under a BSD compatable licence.
> 
> ? maybe then more commercial donators would be attracted...
> 
> chris
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