(original post below) Lame beeing LGPL, compliance with our license is quite easy. If you did not modified it but just included it into your product, all you have to do is to clearly state that you are using it into your product (mention inside an "about" box is usually fine).
Please notify us of the change, so we can update our website appropriately. Regards, -- Gabriel Bouvigne www.mp3-tech.org personal page: http://gabriel.mp3-tech.org Lee Goddard a écrit : > I saw FlashDigger listed as illegally using LAME, so asked the guy. Here > is his reply. > > Lee Goddard > > Independent Contractor, Software Development/Analysis > BBC Radio & Music Interactive R&D, > Room 3365, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, W1A 1AA > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lee Goddard > Sent: 06 June 2006 12:21 > To: 'FlashDigger Support' > Subject: RE: About LAME and FlashDigger > > Dr Alexander, > > It is good to come across such a co-operative person! > > I have forwarded your reply to the mailing list where I am sure you will > hear from concerned parties in due course. > > LAME is nothing to do with me, I was just curious - as a programmer of > open-source software myself - to see how those listed in the "naughty" > section would respond to a polite e-mail. > > Lee Goddard > > Independent Contractor, Software Development/Analysis BBC Radio & Music > Interactive R&D, Room 3365, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, W1A 1AA > > > -----Original Message----- > From: FlashDigger Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 06 June 2006 12:06 > To: Lee Goddard > Subject: Re: About LAME and FlashDigger > > Dear Mr. Goddard, > > I'm really surprised by this information! > > That development was made few years ago, and the LAME library was got > _not_ from your (now official) site but from a third-party software > archive, where it was declared (by accompaning documentation) as > freeware. Therefore it was used in this development without notifying > you about this fact. > > I'm really sorry for the situation we have now and I'm ready to fix it > ASAP by all possible means, but please drop me a line of what should be > my exact actions to fix the situation? As far as I know your software > product is distributed under GPL. Would it be enough if I will insert > the declaration of its usage with the link to your official web page > into the "Credits" > chapter of the help file? Hope yes, because I see no other places where > to show it. > > I'd like to note that LAME library is definitely NOT the essence of the > FlashDigger software. It is used there as one of an extra add-ons, in no > way functioning within the main software. So, I doubt we ever made a > money from its usage. Moreover this particular addon is available for > free in unregistered version of the software. > > Once more sorry, > > Best regards, > Alexander Bokovikov > FlashDigger Plus author > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lee Goddard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "FlashDigger TechSupport" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 1:27 PM > Subject: Rip > > > Does your product still illegally use LAME to decode MPEG audio? If so, > would it be okay to illegally use your software too? > > http://lame.sourceforge.net/links.html > _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [email protected] https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
