....or, they could simply use the fdmf app I plan to write. It wouldn't
be as clean as linking to some library, true, but it would work, and
AFAIK the GPL only covers code and linking to other code, not piping
data from one app to another.
But you're right, had it been released under the LGPL it would have been
better. Perhaps we can have the author do just that.... I expect he
doesn't care *that* much about the license.
Paul Taylor wrote:
> For any non-open source application to be able to match data on MB by
> fdmf they would need to use fdmf-derived code in their application to
> generate signatures for the audio files to be matched against MBData,
> If fdmf is is GPL they would have to make all their source code GPL
> also which they wouldnt want to do, hence the MB Data is less useful
> for them because they cant match by fdmf.
>
> Ben wrote:
>
>> How do you figure that? My understanding with the GPL is that, if we
>> were to use fdmf-derived code to generate fdmf signatures, than we
>> would have to make the source of that program available.
>>
>
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