From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 26 9: 5:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC6A437B4EC for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:05:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA26669; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:04:39 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010226100245.04c192c0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:04:29 -0700 To: Rahul Siddharthan , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: RMS supports Vorbis switch to BSD license? In-Reply-To: <20010226145200.Q42463@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 06:52 AM 2/26/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > In response to the change of license, Richard Stallman of the Free > Software Foundation says, "I agree. It is wise to make some of the > Ogg Vorbis code available for use in proprietary software, so that > commercial companies doing proprietary software will use it, and help > Vorbis succeed in competition with other formats that would be > restricted against our use." Betcha Stallman hopes to "embrace and extend" the code into the FSF's hoard of software by coming out with a "GNU" version somewhere down the road. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message