Re: [Audacity-devel] SoX resampling

[Vaughan J. <va...@au...>]

On 10/28/2012 2:58 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Vaughan Johnson wrote:
> 
>> I did not know that. I thought that long-ago decision was working for
>> all parties.
>>
>> We cannot control what Linux distros do, but yes, we can make it more
>> difficult by removing support from Audacity trunk/HEAD. Even if we do,
>> anybody with enough motivation could still find that libsamplerate
>> support in prior Audacity revisions.
>>
>> Am cc-ing Erik, as he has already expressed that he does not want
>> libsamplerate in our releases.
> 
> I have a problem with Audacity linking to libsamplerate *and* GPL
> incompatible stuff. Most Linux distributions don't do that.
> 
>> Erik, would you like us to remove the
>> options for libsamplerate support from Audacity trunk/HEAD, as well?
> 
> I'd prefer if you kept it so that Linux distros like Debian that do
> the RightThing(tm) wrt licenses can use libsamplerate.
> 
> Erik
> 

Thanks, Erik. So, it looks to me that I was correct, that this issue was
already resolved a while ago, and there's no good reason to remove the
capability to use libsamplerate.

- Vaughan