[Playlist] libSpiff issues; was: Call for Xiph online meeting in 7th Feb (this Wednesday) at 18:00 UTC

[Sebastian Pipping]

Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:
> I've talked with Pawlowski through a Private Message in HA.  If you'd
> like to share some words with him I suggest you do the same.

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Peter and I had a row on Hydrogenaudio some time ago which
got me banned. My behavior was not very mature. I think I was
right in what I was saying but maybe not how.
I doubt he will talk to me again.
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> I suppose if you were to license libSpiff under BSD and donate it to
> Xiph, there would be no need for that, but alas I remember how much of
> a fuss you made when I asked if you could donate your XSPF validator
> to xspf.org, so we both know that won't happen.

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The question was where to host the validator.
I don't know what you mean by "donation" but as I said
the validator will go GPL later and I meant it.
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>> What's the problem with LGPL
> 
> That's now how libraries are licensed in Xiph.  They have to be
> available for any kind of comercial or non-comercial projects, no
> matter its license or way to handle source code.  Even Richard Stalman
> agreed with that--in fact, I heard it was him that suggested that
> years ago.

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As far as I know the BSD license allows my code to be
swallowed by a closed source application without
getting anything back - no bugfixes, no new features,
no money - nothing. I don't like this and that is why
I stick with GNU.
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>> If you have ideas on improving libSpiff please
>> share them.
> 
> Sure.  For starters get relative and absolute URI support in it.
> Knowing that any software that uses your library will not be compliant
> with the XSPF spec and be limited in what it can do gives me the
> shivers.

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I am currently working on a RFC 3986 URI parser library.
So this is mainly a question of time.
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> You are a Windows user, right?  What programming platform do you use?
> Visual Studio?  If you use VS, how well does that make a good portable
> library?  I hear it uses a lot of Microsoft library dependencies
> making code pretty much unportable to other platforms but Windows.  Or
> do you use cygwin?

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The latest release of libSpiff compiled well on several
operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Windows was Non-Cygwin MinGW/GCC and Visual Studio 2003/2005
which I use in parallel.
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> Oh, and have you heard of Erlang?  It seems to be an awesome thing for
> C++ programmers, although I don't know much about it.

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You mean the programming language?
How does this relate here?



Sebastian