On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 02:16:58PM +0200, Jan Peman wrote:
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> > to encode, just call lame from a shell script or via system(3).
> >should be trivial, eh?
> This might be hard to do, if they are implementing Lame in a DSP/embedded
> application.
> Don't know if this is the case for the German company though..
No they don't want to incorporate it that way. They have a bad encoder that
is coupled via DLL into their program and want to replace it with a better
one. Lame is one choice.
Let get this straight: They want to use Lame in oder to support free
development but cannot put all their stuff under GPL. They will give full
credit, include the sources and everything...
> How does the mp3 license work? Can you just get a licence and distribute
> Lame with full source?
Just got the information:
You pay about US$15.000 per year and US$2.50 per encoder you sell. The fee
for the sold encoders is subtracted from the US$15.000, i.e. you can sell
6000 encoders and only then have to pay for the every next license $2.50.
But the $15.000 are fix per year if you sell any or not.
> /jp (Who thinks it would be great if Lame became more used, esp. if
> BladeEnc(LGPL:ed) is the other alternative ;))
Oh! BladeDLL is LGPL?
One more point to do it ;)
We should ask Richard Stallman if splitting the license at compile time is
possible at all... I honestly do not know.
CU
nils
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