From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 11 20:41:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A062D37B404 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 20:41:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-out.comcast.net (smtp-out.comcast.net [24.153.64.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13F8D43FA3 for ; Sun, 11 May 2003 20:41:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kaarthik@comcast.net) Received: from the-saint.the-saint.localdomain (pcp811112pcs.nrockv01.md.comcast.net [68.49.73.7]) by mtaout03.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HER00MWB8VRFJ@mtaout03.icomcast.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 11 May 2003 23:40:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 23:35:30 -0400 From: Kaarthik Sivakumar To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <87d6ioq1kt.fsf@comcast.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.5 (cauliflower) Lines: 34 Subject: library for MP3 header information X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 03:41:03 -0000 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.