libertyernie / LoopingAudioConverter

A converter frontend for loopable audio formats
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Document whether it's FLOSS #91

Closed Splendide-Imaginarius closed 5 months ago

Splendide-Imaginarius commented 1 year ago

The README says:

Note: Each project in this repository has different license terms. See the individual folders for details.

I realize that it would be unwieldy to list all of the various upstream licenses in the README, but it would be useful to at least confirm in the README whether all of the projects are under an FSF/OSI-approved license. I think quite a lot of users care more about whether it's FLOSS than about exactly what the various licenses are for each piece of code.

Thanks.

libertyernie commented 1 year ago

The biggest issue is probably the BrawlCrate code, which has always had vague (or no) license terms. But I could (and probably should) make a build without that, where I can clearly specify the license terms of each component. The only things that use BrawlCrate code are the RSTM (etc) encoder/decoder - we also have encoders/decoders for those formats via VGAudio - and the manual loop point selection dialog.

Splendide-Imaginarius commented 1 year ago

The biggest issue is probably the BrawlCrate code, which has always had vague (or no) license terms.

I see, good to know.

But I could (and probably should) make a build without that, where I can clearly specify the license terms of each component.

That would be excellent, thanks.

libertyernie commented 5 months ago

New versions have updated license info in the About.html

Libraries used:

Name
    License
BrawlLib (BrawlCrate)
    LGPL v3 or later
OpenTK
    Mostly MIT, with some code 3-clause BSD
RunProcessAsTask
    MIT
VGAudio
    MIT

External applications used:

Name
    License
ffmpeg
    GPL v3
metaflac
    GPL v2 or later
qaac
    Mostly public domain
VGMPlay
    Mostly unknown
vgmstream
    MIT variant