From 7af7b3dd5f1a4bdef4748079dfee86c81d00bee9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Matthias P. Braendli" Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 04:41:54 +0100 Subject: Clarify licence situation --- README.md | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a962c2a..2016146 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ FDK-AAC-DABplus Package ======================= -This package contains an DAB+ encoder that uses the standalone library +This package contains an DAB+ encoder that uses a modified library of the Fraunhofer FDK AAC code from Android, patched for 960-transform to do DAB+ broadcast encoding. @@ -248,3 +248,25 @@ v0.7.0 fixes most issues, and PAD now works much more reliably. Version 0.4.0 of the encoder changed the ZeroMQ framing. It will only work with ODR-DabMux v0.7.0 and later. +LICENCE +======= + +It's complicated. The FDK-AAC-DABplus project contains + + - The Third-Party Modified Version of the Fraunhofer FDK AAC Codec Library for + Android, which is under its own licence. See NOTICE. + - The code for dabplus-enc in src/ licensed under the Apache Licence v2.0. See + http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + - libtoolame-dab, derived from TooLAME, licensed under LGPL v2.1 or later. See + libtoolame-dab/LGPL.txt + +These source files are compiled and linked together into the dabplus-enc encoder. + +In addition to the audio encoder, there is also mot-encoder, containing code + + - in src/ that is GPL v3+ licensed + - and a crc library with unclear licence situation in contrib/ + +Whether it is legal or not to distribute compiled binaries from these sources +is unclear to me. Please seek legal advice to answer this question. + -- cgit v1.2.3