Jim Crossley <[email protected]> writes: > Further, is it really necessary to pretend to be an app author (obtain > an API key) in order to scrobble and/or stream? It seems other apps, > e.g. RhythmBox and Lastfm.app, only require a username and password.
My other hat is volunteering for the FSF's GPL Compliance Lab... yes, I read copyright licenses for fun. So before I started work on emms-lastfm-client.el I checked to see if the Last.fm terms of service would even permit a free software implementation to exist. After reading the terms of service I had my doubts so I contacted Last.fm and we worked out the existing solution. I cannot speak to what other free software projects do in this regard. But if you want to really get copyright-license geeky then I would say that under the terms of the GNU GPL you could probably do without our more baroque system, but then you wouldn't be able to further distribute your modified version of emms-lastfm-client.el. I admit to never getting the GPL Compliance Lab's opinion on this (the cobber's children walk barefoot I guess). Also, I think that originally Emms was supposed to be a GNU project and therefore I was aiming for GNU-quality GPL compliance. I have no idea where Emms stands with regards to GNU these days (Lukhas?). -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice" _______________________________________________ Emms-help mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emms-help
