I'm a developer and interested in modifying daphile. I followed several discussions about daphile related to the GPL and open source.
1. Under what terms/license is daphile released? Daphile credits all open source packages it uses, but the terms under which the daphile webinterface is released are not very clear. I don't find it anywhere on the daphile site. 2. Is daphile a derived work? The website mentions "Daphile is based on the open source Squeezebox Server, SqueezePlay and Linux.". Playing with a recent beta, daphile incorporates an LMS gui in it's own webinterface (using LMS 7.9) and a recent squeezelite 1.8. So it needs LMS as server and squeezelite as player and also recycles the LMS webinterface in his own GUI. So to have a working daphile program that can play music, it needs existing open source packages to function. 3. Several discussions on other forums state that the daphile source is closed/proprietary, but I can read all shell scripts? The program that makes up the webinterface (several bash scripts) are plaintext, no compiled proprietary binaries? So the source is already open for anyone to read. 4. Why close down a linux distro to restrict modifications? I had to download the beta to be able to SSH into daphile, as the stable versions do not have a console or SSH enabled. I could also use a recovery CD to add a console/SSHD to the stable version. This is very annoying. Vortexbox and almost all other distributions that contain LMS or squeezelite (like picoreplayer) allow SSH. Combining (2) and (3) I assume under the GPL, this can be classified as a derived work, which makes Daphile also OSS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ins236's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65454 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99132 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
