[TriLUG] Ogg vs. mp3

[Tanner Lovelace]

Chris Hedemark wrote:

> Commercial vendors hadn't really been supporting ogg for awhile.  They 
> may have been afraid of reading GPL code to figure it out or something, 
> I don't know.  

Chris,

Actually, the OGG code has been BSD licensed for a while.
They started out as GPL, but switched to BSD to help spur
adoption.  They even talked it over with RMS and got his
blessing about it!

Cheers,
Tanner
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