Moi!
I've been trying to merge support for decompressing ADPCM-coded files into
the audiofile library. The patch was taken from upstream CVS. However,
I'm uncertain whether the licence of one of the files included in the
patch clashes with the LGPL that the rest of the code is subject to. I'd
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 09:50:08AM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote:
I'm worried about the 'without fee' part. Does this translate into:
- You don't have to pay any royalties to the Mathematisch Centrum if you
use this code,
or
- If you use this code, you may not charge any money for it?
It
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:27:58 -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
It was quite obvious to me that they intended the first sense.
As a side note, CWI (the Mathematisch Centrum) have prior experience in
free software related licensing issues as e.g. Python was originally
developed there. One option is
On 18-Sep-01, 02:50 (CDT), Daniel Kobras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
[...]
I'm worried about the 'without fee' part. Does this translate into:
While I
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:27:58AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
It was quite obvious to me that they intended the first sense.
However, I would think that a clarfication would be crucial. Some
copyright holders have really tried to abuse wording loopholes (/me
looks at UW).
Alas the code is
The notion that
standards do not get out of date can't be meant seriously in a world of
SQL92, IPv6, C89, etc. etc.
IPv6 and C99 didn't change IPv4 or C89, did they?
No. Modification to the content must be allowed ... certainly not
modification to the metadata.
I don't see the
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 05:36:03PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote:
Alas the code is pretty ancient (1992), and neither the code, nor the
CWI pages offer references on who to contact regarding ADPCM. Anyway,
I've found out the code is not only used by current Debian packages of
xwave and xmp, but
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