Re: Streaming AAC with libshout?
Pete Yadlowsky <[email protected]>
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On 06/24/13 20:16, Ralph Giles wrote: > On 13-06-24 2:55 PM, RJ Ryan wrote: > >> Respectfully, please change your stance on this issue! > > libshout was developed and is maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation, > whose charter is the development and promotion of media technology > that is open and free for anyone to use. As such it's inappropriate > for that project to support non-free formats like AAC, no matter how > popular or convenient that might be for our downstream users. Emphatically agreed, though I'm only a lurker here. I like to think that FOSS is about forging new conveniences and popularities rather than bowing down to old encumbered ones. -- Pete Yadlowsky ITC Unix Systems Support University of Virginia