erland wrote: > Their licensing rules were different previously, it was easy to get a > PartnerId previously and the OPML file was more or less an open API, I > think they changed it about the time when RadioTime became TuneIn, but > it could be worth to check with them if it's possible to get a PartnerId > as a non commercial partner, I know it's hard as a commercial partner > unless you can guarantee them volumes. > . > . > Having said that, an open source plugin with a few thousand users would > probably not be a target for TuneIn lawyers, especially if you don't put > the PartnerId from someone else in the url. If they decided to take > legal action towards a low volume plugin developer they would probably > be happy if you just stopped distributing it, but anyone doing it should > be aware of the risks, I don't think the OPML file without PartnerId is > an official API any more. Using someone elses PartnerId is a bad idea, > because some partners have to pay for each TuneIn user and TuneIn could > be measuring amount of users by looking at the partner id in the > request.
I hope it didn't across that I suggested to user another user's Partrner Id as that was not my intentions. I was curious to know whether the XBMC plugin actually used the PartnerID as the plugin documentation seemed to indicate it was not required. Regarding PartnerId, I have already went through some of these hoops with Amazon AWS and the FindArt plugin and didn't want to leave myself open to litigation as a result of 3rd parties using (and possibly modifying) my plugin. As the only proper way forward would be for someone to contact Tunein to see if a non commercial licenses is still possible. My concern would be that this may highlight the issue (e.g. XBMC plugin) within Tunein which may have been ignored and in the worst case scernario instigating a policy change which revokes all non commercial use of Tunein API. Perhaps the "softly, softly" approach would be to ask XBMC Tunein plugin developer is their id is non commercial and when was it issued. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98205 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
