On Saturday 07 December 2002 5:22 pm, Marcus Denker wrote:
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 05:11:39PM +0000, John Hinsley wrote:
Ogg Vorbis would be in most respects a better way to attack the issue (the external libraries are available for just about every platform) -- I'm convinced that it's both technically and audibly superior -- but raises (as the "GPL is evil" lobby will point out) other potential licencing issues.
The Ogg-Libraries are under a BSD license:
What licensing applies to the included Ogg Vorbis software?
The bundled Ogg Vorbis utility software is released under the terms of the GNU GPL, or GNU General Public License. The details can be found at www.gnu.org.
The libraries and SDKs are released under the more business-friendly BSD license. Please note that developers are still free to use the specification to independently write closed-source implementations of Ogg Vorbis which are not bound by these licenses.
I stand corrected: Ogg is the way to go!
Cheers
John