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Re: mpg123 is now free?



> According to x11amp's README.Debian:
> 
>   x11amp is now free, because the upstream authors have arranged
>   everything with mpg123 authors, to relicence their code under GPL.
> 
> ...
> 
>  -- Josip Rodin <jrodin@jagor.srce.hr>, Wed,  3 Feb 1999 16:11:45 +0100
>  
> If this is so, doesn't this imply that mpg123 itself should now be free?

The authors can relicense it at will, maybe it is only GPL when used in
conjunction with x11amp. (Or one of the parties involved doesn't fully
understand something)

- Jay Kominek <jay.kominek@colorado.edu>
  Tact is the ability to tell a man he has
  an open mind when he has a hole in his head.


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