Re: Licencing the Xing Decoder

2000-03-09 Thread Brett A . Thomas 

On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:32:00PM +, John Adcock wrote:
> The Freeamp code is prefect except for the GPL.

Thanks for the kind words.  ;)  We like to think the GPL is a big part
of what MAKES it perfect.  :)

> Is there any way the decoder part can be packaged as LGPL or can
> anyone let me know where to get the original Xing code, presumably
> this was under released under a more general licence.

The original Xing code was actually under a much more restrictive
license (i.e., you couldn't get it, at all).  It got into GPL because
EMusic.com (my employer) paid Xing to release it under the GPL so that
FreeAmp could use it.  Xing was only interested in releasing under the
GPL (and not LGPL or a "less restrictive" license) because they did
not wish competitors to make enhancements to commercial products that
competed with their offerings without also having to release the
source code.  I believe the Fraunhofer reference code is released
under a public domain license; if you just want basic decoding, you
could probably use that (although it's obviously slower than FreeAmp).

Good luck!

Brett
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Licencing the Xing Decoder

2000-03-09 Thread John Adcock 

Hi

Can anybody help me with a licencing issue.  I am writing proprietary music 
rights plug-ins for various platforms and need an MP3 decoding library (most 
of the ones I've found e.g XAudio do not allow DRM users).

The Freeamp code is prefect except for the GPL.  Is there any way the 
decoder part can be packaged as LGPL or can anyone let me know where to get 
the original Xing code, presumably this was under released under a more 
general licence.

Also if I wanted to release a plug-in for Freeamp is there any way I can do 
this without having to release source.  Would it have to be created using 
none of the existing code?

John

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