Hello I'm the developer of the newly released FM Composer, an open source music software featuring a tracker and an FM synthesizer : http://fmcomposer.org It's currently under GPL v3. I've added a FLAC export feature for the next version to be released, using libFLAC. I'm not really sure about what I can do, even after reading the copyright notice... - Should I use libFLAC as static or dynamic library ? - No problem including it in a GPL program ? - I've added Josh Coalson and Xiph.Org Foundation in the credits. Is it enough or should I copy some more legal text somewhere ? Thanks in advance for your help :) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac-dev/attachments/20180228/2e4f3c82/attachment.html>
Stéphane Damo wrote:> - Should I use libFLAC as static or dynamic library ?libFALC is BSD licensed. The flac command line program is GPL licened. Whether you use libFLAC as a static or dynamic library is totally up to you.> - No problem including it in a GPL program ?No problems as long as you abide by the licenses. There are no issues whatsoever using a BSD licensed library (either statically or dynamically linked) in a GPL program.> - I've added Josh Coalson and Xiph.Org Foundation in the credits. Is it > enough or should I copy some more legal text somewhere ?That is more than sufficient. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/
Thank you for your answer. FLAC support was requested by one of my users so I'm happy I can answer positively. Keep up the good work @Xiph ! On 28 February 2018 at 23:44, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+la at mega-nerd.com> wrote:> Stéphane Damo wrote: > > > - Should I use libFLAC as static or dynamic library ? > > libFALC is BSD licensed. The flac command line program is GPL licened. > > Whether you use libFLAC as a static or dynamic library is totally up > to you. > > > - No problem including it in a GPL program ? > > No problems as long as you abide by the licenses. There are no issues > whatsoever using a BSD licensed library (either statically or dynamically > linked) in a GPL program. > > > - I've added Josh Coalson and Xiph.Org Foundation in the credits. Is it > > enough or should I copy some more legal text somewhere ? > > That is more than sufficient. > > Erik > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Erik de Castro Lopo > http://www.mega-nerd.com/ > _______________________________________________ > flac-dev mailing list > flac-dev at xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac-dev/attachments/20180228/42dceadf/attachment.html>