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From: Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: spotify license
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:26:55
Message-Id: 508EA01F.20404@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: spotify license by Ulrich Mueller
1 On 10/29/2012 09:52 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 >>>>>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Matthew Thode wrote:
3 >
4 >> It's looking hard to be able to add the spotify ebuild to tree because
5 >> of licensing concerns.
6 >
7 >> http://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/
8 >
9 > This concerns not so much the client software, but their "service" and
10 > the contents provided through it.
11 >
12 >> 10:02 < prometheanfire > do you have a plaintext version? I can copy
13 >> the text, but just thought I'd ask :D
14 >> 10:02 < dan^spotify > No, and copy+pasting it into a text file isn't
15 >> something we really want you to to do, since it changes from time-to-time
16 >> 10:04 < prometheanfire > ok, I'll see what the proper course of action
17 >> is, I think you have us accept the license on first start right?
18 >> 10:04 < dan^spotify > Correct
19 >> 10:04 < dan^spotify > Well, first login
20 >> 10:05 < prometheanfire > just as good probably
21 >> 10:05 < dan^spotify > If you've already accepted the most up-to-date
22 >> license on another machine, you won't be prompted again
23 >
24 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373093
25 >
26 >> They want it to be accepted through the app. Is there a way this is
27 >> compatible with Gentoo?
28 >
29 > We need a plaintext license file for the client that we put in
30 > ${PORTDIR}licenses/, so users can look at it before they install the
31 > package.
32 >
33 >> Any advice would be appreciated.
34 >
35 > Maybe it would make more sense to add one of the free alternatives?
36 >
37 > http://despotify.se/
38 > https://gitorious.org/libopenspotify
39 >
40 > media-sound/despotify is already in Sunrise, bug 307795.
41 >
42 > Ulrich
43 >
44 This makes me think that it covers the client as well. They did say
45 that if we tried to keep this up to date that would be good enough.
46
47 Third party software libraries included in the Spotify Service are
48 licensed to you either under these Terms, or under the relevant third
49 party software library’s licence terms as published in the help or
50 settings section of our desktop and mobile client and on our website.
51
52 --
53 -- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)

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