Lossless audio codec inplementation for MCF - FLAC or Monkey ?

Gentlemen,

for your information i am including a log of a conversation i had with some
guys on #project_mayhem this morning :

<ChristianHJW> cheers guys
<ChristianHJW> if we are going to implement a lossless format into MCF as
'supported native format'
<ChristianHJW> should we go for FLAC or Monkey ?
<Garf> if there arent any licensing issues, i'd pick monkey
<Garf> though IIRC it depends on optimized x86 assembly to work well
<Garf> FLAC has buggy code
<ChristianHJW> we dont expect to have licensing probs, as we are only
storing the data
<ChristianHJW> but FLAC is opensource, right ?
<Garf> so is mac
<jonI> has anyone actually packaged monkey for Linux yet?
<jonI> ChristianHJW: the source code for MAC is out there, but under an
unclear license.
<ChristianHJW> so this helps a lot when trying to find the best data
structure to store them in MCF container
<ChristianHJW> jonI : any chance to hand me a link or so ?
<Garf> flac also has the advantage that ogg framing was already done, so you
have an example
<ChristianHJW> thats very good news indeed
<ChristianHJW> can i find that in normal Ogg CVS ?
<jonI> the ogg framing may even be in the FLAC source code.
<jonI> it would be on the FLAC site, not the ogg one, I imagine.
<ChristianHJW> thanks for the hints guys
<ChristianHJW> any objections me sending the  log form here to mcf mailing
list ?
<ChristianHJW> makes it easier for me ;-)
<jonI> there's no Monkey's Audio release for anything non-Windows yet,
looking at their we site.
<jonI> and the source code doesn't seem to be linked -- if it's there, it's
buried somewhere <jonI> the only link I've seen relating to the MAC source
was a Hydrogen Audio post.
<ChristianHJW> so i go use the search function there .. thanks mate
<jonI> ooh, the last post in the MAC forum was by Frank Klemm.
<ChristianHJW> what is Frankie boy saying ? <jonI> telling someone about 5.1
audio... not particularly interesting.
<jonI> ChristianHJW: http://www.monkeysaudio.com/developers.html <-- here's
the announcement of MAC source code.
http://www.monkeysaudio.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=Developers&action=di
splay&num=1018832394 <-- here's Klemm saying that he's ported it to Linux.


More interesting threads here :
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2163&highligh
t=monkey+sourcecode and here
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1298&highligh
t=monkey+sourcecode .

I was left unclear in this discussion if we had any licensing probs with
Monkey, for sure such would not exist with FLAC ( Opensource ).

Regards

Christian