Hey Guys,
For those Multimedia freaks, Check out Winamp3 beta 2 review. Also, they've designed the new API called WASABI, uniform for all the operating systems(currently works with Linux And Win32). This means, Winamp will now work with Linux as well.... Plus, whatever you develop for Winamp3 on Win32 using WASABI will work with very less or no modification on Linux as well.
It's great..... ( that is what I think !!!)
Hope to get your reviews as well...
Kunal ------------------
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Sometime on Dec 30, Kunal Gangakhedkar assembled some asciibets to say:
For those Multimedia freaks, Check out Winamp3 beta 2 review.
does it come with source code? does the licence allow you to modify the source? does the licence allow you to redistribute it? does the licence allow you to redistribute modified versions and call it your own?
If you answer no to any of the above, then it is no good.
Philip
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BTW philip, most r just content with the way thingz run.....no1 wants to make a difference....
Trevor Warren
Philip
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Hi Philip,
Answers to your questions :
1. Yes, it comes with the source code. Actually the new API that is created/used for developing Winamp3 is designed to be used for other applications as well. It is almost same as Microsoft's COM - or maybe better than COM itself, but uses the same fundamental features. See the WASABI Overview file in the SDK package for more details (The SDK distribution is hardly 700KB dowload).
2., 3. & 4. Yeah, the licence allows you to modify the source, use it in commercial software/freeware etc. I'm attaching the actual "license.txt" from the SDK distribution. Refer to it for more details.
I guess the restrictions / conditions in the GNU GPL are more restrictive than the license of WASABI. Also, even the Qt Library license is also still more restrictive, but still these two are considered to be the base of the entire Free Software and Open Source Software movements.
I guess, the original SDK distribution is worth a look. Just go through the documentation that comes with it. It'll clear all the points.
Kunal
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----- Original Message ----- From: Philip S Tellis philip.tellis@iname.com To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 12:28 AM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] - Winamp For Linux
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Kunal Gangakhedkar wrote:
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Cool. Actually sounds a lot like the BSD licence. I guess we can use it after all.
Philip
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