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On 10/29/2012 09:52 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Matthew Thode wrote: |
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>> It's looking hard to be able to add the spotify ebuild to tree because |
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>> of licensing concerns. |
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>> http://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/ |
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> This concerns not so much the client software, but their "service" and |
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> the contents provided through it. |
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>> 10:02 < prometheanfire > do you have a plaintext version? I can copy |
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>> the text, but just thought I'd ask :D |
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>> 10:02 < dan^spotify > No, and copy+pasting it into a text file isn't |
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>> something we really want you to to do, since it changes from time-to-time |
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>> 10:04 < prometheanfire > ok, I'll see what the proper course of action |
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>> is, I think you have us accept the license on first start right? |
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>> 10:04 < dan^spotify > Correct |
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>> 10:04 < dan^spotify > Well, first login |
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>> 10:05 < prometheanfire > just as good probably |
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>> 10:05 < dan^spotify > If you've already accepted the most up-to-date |
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>> license on another machine, you won't be prompted again |
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>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373093 |
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>> They want it to be accepted through the app. Is there a way this is |
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>> compatible with Gentoo? |
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> We need a plaintext license file for the client that we put in |
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> ${PORTDIR}licenses/, so users can look at it before they install the |
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> package. |
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>> Any advice would be appreciated. |
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> Maybe it would make more sense to add one of the free alternatives? |
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> http://despotify.se/ |
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> https://gitorious.org/libopenspotify |
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> media-sound/despotify is already in Sunrise, bug 307795. |
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> Ulrich |
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This makes me think that it covers the client as well. They did say |
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that if we tried to keep this up to date that would be good enough. |
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Third party software libraries included in the Spotify Service are |
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licensed to you either under these Terms, or under the relevant third |
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party software library’s licence terms as published in the help or |
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settings section of our desktop and mobile client and on our website. |
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-- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire) |