OSI enforcement?

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Fri Jan 11 08:23:59 UTC 2008


Quoting Matthew Flaschen (matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu):

> They also supported making Xiph's Ogg Vorbis decoder BSD, to promote
> massive adoption, especially by hardware vendors.

Yes, that's one of the instances I was trying to remember.  Thanks.

Here's Richard's mailing list posting where he urged Xiph.org Foundation 
to adopt BSD licensing for the Vorbis codec:
http://lwn.net/2001/0301/a/rms-ov-license.php3

Note that FSF's approval isn't merely passive or theoretical, either:
http://linux.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/fsf-launch-playoggorg/





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