That is the question I put before you all tonight :) (Short background, Xiph is the corp behind Vorbis and Ogg, among other things; see http://xiph.org/about.html . I think Emmett is here now so correct any of this if it's wrong.)
I've been talking a little with Emmett Plant and Monty about this. If it were to happen, it would mean the following: 1. FLAC would benefit from the increased visibility from the association. Emmett can probably expound more upon this point. Anyway, hopefully this will mean it's popularity will rise, not just with users but also with developers of other tools. 2. The core libraries would become BSD-licensed. I've been really 50/50 on this ever since I submitted the question to Slashdot (see http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/27/1650256 ). Now that WMA lossless is out it seems like less of an issue but I will still need to get permission from some of you, those that have contributed legally-significant (in the U.S. I think that means >10 lines of) code to libFLAC. Only the codec libraries need to be BSD; the command-line tools and plugins would remain GPL. 3. Operations would move from Sourceforge to Xiph. There are pluses and minuses, actually not so much minuses as unknowns. These are the main changes that would happen. So I ask everyone, especially libFLAC contributors, what do you think? Josh __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus � Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flac-dev
