Re: xiph for ipad?
Harald Dunkel <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:31:51 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.multimedia.ogg.vorbis.general |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/29/11 17:18, Jason Self wrote: > Harald Dunkel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> 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. > I didn't mean the license conditions for Vorbis, but for the open source tools Apple bundles with Darwin, e.g. Samba, gcc, bzip2, png, perl and tons of others. Please don't get me wrong on this: I have no problem with anybody using open source. But IMHO open source license conditions should keep an eye upon fair practices. If one party makes a big buck by using open source on the system he sells, then he should not constrain others to use or provide open source tools on/for the same system. Regards Harri -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2SJZYACgkQUTlbRTxpHjdVXgCfZF4TDQMLZ7BQLwXLa7NRQ6BB 8GgAoIrHLqF2TtIPfTvXy4q664MdXEcB =aakE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----