[sdlsound] tremor and MAD?

[Marc Lavallée]

I'm not sure to understand...
MAD license is GPL, Tremor license is BSD.
According to http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
MAD is compatible with the GPL, Tremor is not.
Since SDL_Sound is LGPL, does it reverse the situation?
(Tremor being compatible with the LGPL while MAD is not?)
--
Marc


Le lun 13/01/2003 à 04:38, Glenn Maynard a écrit :
> IANAL.
> 
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:17:54AM -0500, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
> > > Would it be possible to use the Tremor and MAD libraries in SDL_sound?
> > > It would boost the performance on StrongArm processors.
> > 
> > I wrote to the MAD developers for a GPL exemption, but never heard back.
> 
> LGPL libraries are GPL-compatible, so they can link to GPL libraries; no
> exemption is needed.  http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
> 
> The trouble that comes up is that only GPL-compatible code can link to
> GPL'd code (even indirectly, through another library), so if MAD is
> linked to SDL_sound, the extra permissions granted by the LGPL are 
> unavailable, since using them would violate MAD's license.  However,
> SDL_sound is still LGPL and the permissions can still be used if MAD
> isn't linked (eg. SMPEG or MPGLIB is used instead).
> 
> If the GPL library being linked by an LGPL library was not optional--if
> the only way to compile the lib is to use the library--then there's no
> choice, and the program is effectively GPL (unless a replacement is
> written).  In other words, MAD can't replace SMPEG and MPGLIB.
> 
> -- 
> Glenn Maynard