[Vorbis] vorbis winamp plugin

[Paul Ellis]

Ah, you are correct, I should have read more closely.  Really I should 
know better than to reply to an e-mail within an hour of waking up.

Paul

Michael Smith wrote:

>Ross was asking about redistributing the Nullsoft vorbis plugin for
>winamp, not about distributing the vorbis libraries. Thought their
>plugin uses libvorbis, it's not under a BSD-style license (indeed it's
>not open source at all), and it would certainly not be legal to
>redistribute it without getting explicit permission (which I wouldn't
>expect would be granted).
>
>The nullsoft plugin is much more functional than the old xiph one that
>Jack and I wrote. The winamp input plugin model is extremely limited,
>though, so I would strongly recommend against using this model for a
>new application, and would particularly recommend against using the
>xiph winamp plugin given the problems that it had/has. But hey, THAT
>plugin is open source, so you can do that if you really want to.
>
>Mike
>