Re: [oc] Final Year University Projects

[Colin Marquardt <c.marquardt@alcatel.de>]

"Loi Tran" <leotran@att.net> writes:

> How about an OGG VORBIS codec core.  It's open  and royalty free (for now)

"for now"? The Ogg codecs are licensed under the LGPL (with Tremor
being BSD-like), so they can't demand royalties for already existing
versions. What they might do is to switch licenses, but that doesn't
effect what's already out there.

The bigger threat is that someone might claim that they infringe a
patent, despite them trying to make sure this won't happen.

> and I've been looking around for one and it's one that I would like
> to see available to all.

<http://oggonachip.sourceforge.net/>

See also

<http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=
ahj0l9%249mk%2406%241%40news.t-online.com&rnum=2&prev=
/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26q%3Dcomp.lang.vhdl
%2Bogg%2Bvorbis%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg>

<http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=
897335fa.0208091108.6977192f%40posting.google.com&rnum=1&prev=
/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26q%3Dcomp.lang.vhdl
%2Bogg%2Bvorbis%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg>

My pet project would be a VHDL module for http://cedet.sourceforge.net/
as mentioned in the threads above, but that's not hardware. Still, it
might be interesting.

Cheers,
  Colin
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