> > > > the target audience is anyone who wants to learn any Indian > language. Unfortunately we are a foss organisation, so cannot use non- > free stuff - so we are in the soup. I am strongly tempted to use wav > or something which the janata can use. But if we do that - aren't we > throwing in the towel? On the other hand, seeing the discussion on > this and every other mailing list on how the faithful are happily > listening to mp3 and wav files I suddenly wondered why not us too?
wav is proprietary. audio cds use PCM but under the 'redbook' format, which is proprietary too. hence it is easy to convert between them. i'd say archive natively to *.aup, export and distribute to the public as *.ogg. those who have problems with your foss values can purchase the dime a dozen indic-language study guides available everywhere these days. under the files state an explicit license that does not stop people from re-encoding the files into other file-formats, foss or non-foss. that is their freedom and you wouldn't be able to stop them either. so if someone else re-distributes these as mp3, well so be it. you could also point to the GPL-ed mp3 encoders but stop short of converting to mp3 yourself. the journey of foss should be the reward. this, in your case, at nrcfoss. i published my copyleft album on freesound using both wav and mp3. but maybe today i wouldn't use either format, and would choose a foss-based format. :-) niyam > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- niyam bhushan _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
