Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 23:35:30 -0400 From: Kaarthik Sivakumar <kaarthik@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: library for MP3 header information Message-ID: <87d6ioq1kt.fsf@comcast.net>
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Hi (Maybe this is not the right forum for this question; maybe freebsd-ports is; let me know if i should redirect it there.) I am trying to find an library that I can use to read header information from MP3 files that is under BSD license. I know there is mpglib from mpg123 but that is not distributed as a separate library. It looks like an application would have to include the files from mpglib in its own distribution, build the library along with the application and use it. I could be wrong about this, so please correct me if that is not the case. The issue I see with doing this for my application [1] is that mpglib is distributed as a LGPL library while my application would be under the BSD license. If someone does modify my application and uses it commercially, I dont know how that would be affected by the presence of a LGPL library in there. Would it be ok to do this? I dont know and I would like to find out. That is why I am out to look for a similar library that is under BSD license so that I wouldnt have to worry about this. Ideally though I would like a library that is distributed independently of any application so that I wouldnt have to include it at all in the distribution of my application. I may be wrong in a lot of assumptions here or posting to the wrong list, so feel free to yell at me, if necessary. Thanks for any help here. Kaarthik [1] X Audio Database at http://xad.sourceforce.net.
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