On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 06:27:01PM +0200, Nils Faerber wrote:
> First of all since all parts of Lame are GPL the usage of header files
> included ofr use of Lame as any sort of DLL for other programs will force
let me cite the gpl:
``If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
sections when you distribute them as separate works.''
so i'd advise your german company to just distribute lame as a ``separate
work'' together with the download software, which should arguably be
independent of the encoder. separate does _not_ mean that lame has to
be on a different cd!
to encode, just call lame from a shell script or via system(3).
should be trivial, eh?
this way, you can safely package lame without fearing that the
download sw will fall under the gpl too.
greetings,
-gerhard
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