[companion-discuss] Re: SUN's AU Format

[Shawn Walker]

> I am looking for information regarding a Audio format
> - "AU" which was introduced by Sun Microsystems.  I
> have fill up to Sun's on line Contact Form but still
> couldn't get to the appropriate contact person to
> response to my queries.
> Am actually looking for licensing information on
> behalf of my company, we have new Internet Radio
> project where the device supports the AU format. We
> would like to know if AU format is an open source
> which do not need license to be used or there is
> royalty fees we need to pay in order to use it to our
> product. Hopefully I have found the correct forum to
> my question.

Unfortunately this isn't the right forum.

Fortunately, I can provide you with a fairly good answer.

First, the wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Au_file_format

Second, the OpenGroup's documentation on it:

http://www.opengroup.org/public/pubs/external/auformat.html

Finally, I have never heard of any licensing being required for the .au file format. It has always been a cross-platform open standard file format as far as I know, and no royalties are necessary to use it.

However, you really need to speak with a representative at SUN to get a legally backed answer.

-Shawn
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