Another philisophical topic:
What do you think of allowing the use of LAME in commercial products?
I've had two requests to release LAME under the LGPL (lesser GPL)
which would allow a freedom-restricting non-GPL app to use the LAME
encoding engine. My feeling is that neither I nor Mike have the
authority to change the licence since many people have submitted code
specifically under the GPL.
However, I think that one of our goals should be to make mp3 as freely
availabe and popular as possible, which will make it harder for some
closed format to take over. And with this in mind it might be good to
allow commercial packages to use LAME. In some countries you would still
have to license the encoding patents, so I dont know if you could actually
save any money by going with LAME instead of Xing.
We could also require something like a donation to the FSF.
Mark
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