For distribution and archiving purposes, the Monkey's Audio files themselves can also be burned onto a CD-R as data. That makes the Monkey's Audio compressor ideal for music traders working

Monkey's Audio is an audio compression scheme that is used to compress WAV audio files losslessly.Ĭontrary to MP3 this means that after you decompress a Monkey's Audio (.ape) file, everything that was in the original. But it's your code and if you want to invent your own funky license that we can't make sense out of then it's up to you.APE: MONKEY'S AUDIO LOSS LESS COMPRESSION Matt if you read this please chose one from the top of. And mac-port might be dead no matter what happens. I don't think anybody can safely distribute this code until the SDK is released under a less funky license. But it's your code and if you want to invent your own funky license that we can't make sense out of then it's up to you. Matt if you read this please chose one from the top of org/licenses/ category. Ashland decided to release his SDK under a widely accepted license. I think gentoo and debian have already decided not to distribute. forums/ index.php? showtopic= 21858&st= 0

Here are some discussions about the license problem: No indication why but I would guess it's due to license problems. But the lgpl and the funky license appear to incompatible. Supermmx wanted to put his version on sourceforge so he told sourceforge it was under the LGPL. The SDK has a funky license that does not appear to be GPL compatible.

Supermmx modified the SDK available on the monkey audio home page to create mac-port. I suggest ubuntu (and even medibuntu) should not distribute. I suggest anyone with ape files get the source from rarewares and convert their apes to flac. It compiled, installed fine, and works well on amd64 kubuntu Feisty. I got the debian source package on the rarewares site.

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