Re: does my program need GPL

FROM : Jordan Hubbard
DATE : Thu Jan 10 20:57:00 2002

If it's a wrapper which crosses a fork/exec boundry to exec lame then
you can use whatever license you want to use for your program.  It's
only if you link with LAME itself (e.g. you added a -gui option to the
lame binary and had it be responsible for putting up the UI) that your
work falls under the GPL.

On Thursday, January 10, 2002, at 08:41 , Ben Bargagliott wrote:

> I just wrote a GUI wrapper for LAME, the mp3
> encoder/decoder.  since LAME is GPL, does my program
> need to be under GPL? i'm going to release it and the
> source for free regardless, but i was just wondering
> if i am obligated. also, how would i go about
> releasing it under GPL? thanks
>
> ben
>
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Jordan K. Hubbard
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Apple Computer