[fpc-devel] update for the sndfile.pp binding

[ik]

On 9/25/07, Adriaan van Os <fpc at microbizz.nl> wrote:
> > Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, ik wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> While trying to work with the library, I have noticed that the
> >>> packages/extra/sndfile/sndfile.pp is old, and most of the API there is
> >>> obsolete and no longer exists on the library.
> >>>
> >>> So I have created (from scratch) a new translation for the latest
> >>> version (1.0.17) that came out over a year ago.
> >>
> >> I have committed your translation, thank you very much.
> >>
> >>> I will send a new demo and the rest of the updates later on this week.
> >>
> >> That would be good, because the example no longer works now :/
> >
> > That's a coincidence ! I have an updated sndfile.pp also, created from
> > scratch and breaking the demo program. I uploaded it to
> > <http://www.microbizz.nl/sndfile.pas.bz2>. You may want to have a look
> > at it. It compiles with both FPC and GPC.
>
> Another issue is that neither the Readme file nor sndfile.pp mentiones that sndfile is licensed
> under the LGPL <http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/>. Therefore, I think the FPC distribution
> violates the libsndfile LGPL license, as FPC itself is distributed under the GPL-with-linking
> exception.


Copying from the header I have translated:

{
** Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd at mega-nerd.com>
**
** This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
** it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
** the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
** (at your option) any later version.
**
** This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
** but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
** MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
** GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
**
** You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
** along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
** Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
...

So the source file does mention that it is LGPL. I fully translated
the header as-is.

>
> Regards,
>
> Adriaan van Os
>
> P.S.
> I suggest to rename the package directory to "libsndfile" as that seems to be the project's name
> <http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/>.

I didn't translate it because of "backward computability" with the old
name. At first I thought on doing that. I believe that it was named
like so, because of the header name.


Ido
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