SE/30 wrote:
quoted 2 lines including open-source software into your original-work is always a legal
> including open-source software into your original-work is always a legal
> nightmare in terms of retaining your own rights.
Not if it's got a BSD-style license like Ogg - which more or less means
"do as you please with this code, but give us credit" and which shouldn't
lead to legal nightmares...
,---- [
http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/ ]
| Xiph.org's Vorbis software libraries (libvorbis and vorbisfile) are
| distributed under a BSD-like license; these libraries may be used by any
| application, Open or proprietary, linked or incorporated in whole, so long
| as acknowldgement is made to Xiph.org Foundation when using our codec
| source in whole or in derived works. See the file 'COPYING' in the source
| for all the details.
`----
So there's really nothing that should hold Apple back from incorporating
it in their free audio playthings - except Apple itself...
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