>Are there no precedents for this scenario?  None?  It doesn't seem like it >should be that exotic. Well, GNU Common LISP wasn't always Free Software, it was required to be open sourced because it linked to GNU readline, which put it in violation of the GPL, according to RMS. See <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-CLISP-is-under-GPL">http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-CLISP-is-under-GPL</a> However, that's only one degree of separation. What happened to the idea of distributing the Fluendo source code, and compiling it at install time (or upon the users' request)? That way, no binaries are being distributed. Personally, I think that if there was a way to just /decode/ MP3, and encode in something else(FLAC/Theora/etc), that would be the optimal solution. Michael Herring