Re: Oggcodecs release 0.82.16930

--- On Tue, 2/23/10, Cristian Adam <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Cristian Adam <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Vorbis] Oggcodecs release 0.82.16930
> To: "Sergei Steshenko" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 5:48 AM
> >
> > Just curious regarding the license (i.e. BSD). IIRC
> FLAC ( flac.sf.net )
> > is under GPL.
> >
> > Or the codecs have an independent FLAC implementation
> ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >  Sergei.
> >
> 
> I'm quoting from AUTHORS file from flac-1.2.1.tar.gz:
> 
> /* FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec
>  * Copyright (C) 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 
> Josh Coalson
>  *
>  * This file is part the FLAC project.  FLAC is
> comprised of several
>  * components distributed under difference licenses. 
> The codec libraries
>  * are distributed under Xiph.Org's BSD-like license (see
> the file
>  * COPYING.Xiph in this distribution).  All other
> programs, libraries, and
>  * plugins are distributed under the GPL (see
> COPYING.GPL).  The documentation
>  * is distributed under the Gnu FDL (see
> COPYING.FDL).  Each file in the
>  * FLAC distribution contains at the top the terms under
> which it may be
>  * distributed.
>  *
>  * Since this particular file is relevant to all components
> of FLAC,
>  * it may be distributed under the Xiph.Org license, which
> is the least
>  * restrictive of those mentioned above.  See the file
> COPYING.Xiph in this
>  * distribution.
>  */
> 
> Since oggcodecs uses only the codec libraries, it falls
> under BSD-like license.
> 
> Cheers,
> Cristian.
> 

Thanks for the clarification - for some reason only the GPL part got into
my head :).

Regards,
  Sergei.