[Vorbis] xiph for ipad?

[Jason Self]

Harald Dunkel <harri at afaics.de> wrote:

> Actually I doubt that the issue is Apple's lack of support for Vorbis and
> others. There has always been poor and rich software.
> 
> The point is that Apple's business model doesn't provide the openness to
> implement better solutions. Looking at all the open source tools Darwin
> and ios are built with, this is just an unbounded cheek.
> 
> The only way out of this is to improve open source license conditions.

libvorbis, libtheora, etc. are already under a liberal license that permits use 
in proprietary software.

The free software community doesn't typically look to Apple for pro-freedom 
activities, so I don't expect to see Apple promoting  (or even supporting) 
unencumbered formats any time soon.
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