On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 12:25:12PM +0200, Gerhard Wesp wrote:
> 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.''
Thats trivial...
> 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!
Grmpf... yes.
> to encode, just call lame from a shell script or via system(3).
> should be trivial, eh?
Yes it is, but we have the DLL version so why not make it usable for such
projects? It is much easier to incorporate functionality by having an API
than to have to call a subshell and parse stdin.
> this way, you can safely package lame without fearing that the
> download sw will fall under the gpl too.
Sure this is an option.
But the DLL version should also be usable, see above...
> greetings,
> -gerhard
CU
nils
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