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.
>
> see http://www.vorbis.com/faq.psp

I stand corrected: Ogg is the way to go!

Cheers

John