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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:04:29 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RMS supports Vorbis switch to BSD license?
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010226100245.04c192c0@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20010226145200.Q42463@lpt.ens.fr>

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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


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