[vlc-devel] [PATCH] spatialaudio: replace the FHK HRTF by the 3D Sound Labs HRTF

[Adrien Maglo]

On 18/12/2017 15:34, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> LGPL? is a .sofa binary the preferred form of making modifications to the HRTF?

Yes, this HRTF was released under the LGPL license.
According to the authors (3D Sound Labs), the following statement was 
included in the metadata inside. I did not check though.

*****
Copyright (C) 2017 3D Sound Labs

This file is part of VLC

VLC 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.

VLC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with VLC; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301, USA.
*****

Regarding the format, SOFA files are the most standard way to store an 
HRTF. They are several tools for audio researcher to create and extract 
the HRTF PCM waves for this format.

Best regards,


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MagSoft