tigersim wrote: > Images and name can be "re-imagined"... :) > If someone with the necessary drawing skills is interested to spend some time drawing completely new icons/logos for whole LMS and Touch/Radio firmware, that would be a great start if some developer wants to make what you suggested happen, most developers I know (including myself) really don't know how to draw graphics. So if someone feels this would be an interesting challenge and would like to help, please let us know, or just do it and post the result in the "Developers" section of the forum.
tigersim wrote: > > The firmware sounds like more of an issue :( > Redistributing custom firmware for Classic/Boom/Transporter/Receiver is going to be hard, but I think it's unlikely that Logitech will remove it from their servers anytime soon and the Classic/Boom/Transporter/Receiver hasn't really got any firmware updates lately so what we have today might be good enough also for the future. Custom firmware for Radio/Touch/Controller is less of a problem as most of it is available under BSD license which allows redistribution and even commercial usage if needed. There are some firmware parts which isn't redistributable, if I've understood correctly it's related to some drivers, some codecs and some online streaming service integrations, but re-implementing the most important parts of that is probably not a big issue for someone with the right knowledge. Except for the already mentioned parts, there are some other parts which also isn't redistributable: - Windows exe binaries (The compiled exe versions of LMS is only redistributable by Logitech) - Windows Installer (Only redistributable by Logitech) - I think MP3 libraries also might have some redistribution restriction, but I'm not completely sure - The Logitech Android/iOS apps aren't even available as source code, but it would be possible to refer people to the existing commercial third party apps instead, so this isn't critical. Finally, most online streaming service integrations is implemented on mysqueezebox.com which due to this isn't available as source code, so to make Rhapsody, Pandora, LastFM, Deezer, TuneIn and similar services work someone would have to get an agreement with the streaming providers and implement a plugin for it. Getting an agreement with some of these providers as an individual spare time developer won't work as some of them refuse to even start a discussion unless you are backed up by a company. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96572 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
