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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: prometheanfire@g.o
Cc: licenses@g.o, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: spotify license
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:53:18
Message-Id: 20622.38948.635785.930332@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] spotify license by Matthew Thode
1 >>>>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Matthew Thode wrote:
2
3 > It's looking hard to be able to add the spotify ebuild to tree because
4 > of licensing concerns.
5
6 > http://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/
7
8 This concerns not so much the client software, but their "service" and
9 the contents provided through it.
10
11 > 10:02 < prometheanfire > do you have a plaintext version? I can copy
12 > the text, but just thought I'd ask :D
13 > 10:02 < dan^spotify > No, and copy+pasting it into a text file isn't
14 > something we really want you to to do, since it changes from time-to-time
15 > 10:04 < prometheanfire > ok, I'll see what the proper course of action
16 > is, I think you have us accept the license on first start right?
17 > 10:04 < dan^spotify > Correct
18 > 10:04 < dan^spotify > Well, first login
19 > 10:05 < prometheanfire > just as good probably
20 > 10:05 < dan^spotify > If you've already accepted the most up-to-date
21 > license on another machine, you won't be prompted again
22
23 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373093
24
25 > They want it to be accepted through the app. Is there a way this is
26 > compatible with Gentoo?
27
28 We need a plaintext license file for the client that we put in
29 ${PORTDIR}licenses/, so users can look at it before they install the
30 package.
31
32 > Any advice would be appreciated.
33
34 Maybe it would make more sense to add one of the free alternatives?
35
36 http://despotify.se/
37 https://gitorious.org/libopenspotify
38
39 media-sound/despotify is already in Sunrise, bug 307795.
40
41 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: spotify license Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@g.o>