Re: [mpg123-devel] Clarification of licensing

[Thomas O. <tho...@or...>]

Am Tue, 7 Jul 2015 21:02:23 +1000
schrieb Brad Robinson <bro...@to...>: 

> 1. What are the licensing requirements for mpg123 in a commercia +l closed
> source application?

Well, that what is written in the LGPL;-) I am not a lawyer and cannot
speak for the interpretation of every contributor, but loosely, my understanding
is that you just need to make public any changes you did to the library
and give your users/customers a way to re-link the application with a
different version of the LGPL library. The latter practically means
dynamic linking or providing object files so that one can reproduce the
linker step.

> 2. Assuming some form of use is permitted, what is required in terms of
> credits, about box wording/copyright notices, web links etc...

You can just include what the mpg123 program tells you:

High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3
	version 1.22.2; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others
	free software (LGPL) without any warranty but with best wishes

A link to the website http://mpg123.org also would be a good idea.


Alrighty then,

Thomas (current project maintainer)