Subject: [linux-audio-dev] AAF license clarification
From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2000 - 16:48:36 EET
Last week, I went to take a look at the AAF SDK. The license
mumbo-jumbo just totally blew me away. So, I asked for some
clarification from the organization, and with their permission, I am
posting this here. Hopefully, this will clear the way to open source
projects adopting this format as widely as it seems like that
commercial ones will.
Brad Gilmer wrote to me subsequently, and noted that are considering
relicensing the SDK, perhaps with either the X or LGPL licenses.
--p
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To: "Paul Barton-Davis" <pbd_AT_op.net>
cc: "Brad Gilmer" <Brad_Gilmer_AT_aafassociation.org>, <info_AT_aafassociation.org>
From: "AAF Association Info" <info_AT_aafassociation.org>
Subject: Re: aaf, gpl, and other mumbo jumbo
We are in the process of reviewing the various open source licenses.
Hopefully, the AAF Association will be able to release the AAF SDK under an
open source license soon.
I empathize with your dismay at the length of the current AAF licenses. But
I don't believe that there should be any problems for adopting and using AAF
as a client application. An AAF client application does not need access to
the AAF source code. The AAF library can be provided as a binary library. If
your application is running on a platform that we currently don't have a
binary kit for, we would be try to make one.
We do think that it is important for us to move the AAF source code to an
open license. We want it to be clear that the AAF source is freely and
fairly available and to make it possible for the open source community to
take part in future development of AAF. It is important to have an open
source license to enable open development of the AAF SDK itself, but it
should be possible for a client to use the SDK with the current license.
Please bear with us while we work through our lawyers in evaluating the open
source licenses.
If you have any specific questions, you can direct them to Brad Gilmer, the
executive director of the AAF Association.
Josh Goldman (for the AAF Association)
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