Re: avifile
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 07:20:38PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > The DLLs themself are freeware - you can easily get them from lots of
> > > other places. Their licenses typically do not say anything explicitly
> > > about this way of using them. I believe there's nothing wrong in it.
>
> Obviously we can't distribute the DLLs. Well, maybe not obviously, but
> I think it would be a very bad idea.
I agree.
It's doubtful their license would allow it, even; I bet Microsoft would
better like them dead and buried than to be distributed in a Linux
distribution... :)
> > > This project includes GSM 6.1 audio decoder, which is taken from XAnim.
> > > XAnim is licensed as 'free for non-commercial use' - not compatible with
> > > (L)GPL. That part needs to be rewritten to resolve this issue.
>
> Is this a plugin? Can you make it one? If so, you could put this
> plugin in non-free, and avifile in contrib.
That's not organized as plugins... I haven't investigated how essential that
stuff is (i.e. is there another audio decoder).
> > > The last paragraph clearly makes it impossible for us to legally distribute
> > > avifile, it's like the old KDE/QT1 mess. Does anyone volunteer for rewriting
> > > this? :)
>
> No, this is different. Basically, the author of avifile is responsible
> for its licence - he needs to include an explicit clause allowing
> avifile to link to GSM, then the result will be legally distributable.
> But non-free.
Then I wouldn't want to package it, though :)
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