> I am interested in one of the Mono GSoC projects for F-Spot, aiming to > implement a managed DPAP library, and I wish to apply to GSoC with this > project. I have a few questions here: > 1) It seems that DPAP is not an open protocol. I could not find any detailed > document describing it. There's some document about Apple's services' ports > usage, but it's far not sufficient to implement a library which is > completely compatible with iPhoto. Do I need to analyze its network packets > to acquire its details?
Libdmapsharing is a DMAP/DAAP/DPAP/DACP implementation written in C (http://www.flyn.org/projects/libdmapsharing/). The project uses GNOME Git and GNOME Bugzilla. I think libdmapsharing is a good basis for a C# DPAP implementation. In fact, I included F-Spot DPAP support in the GNOME Google Summer of Code project idea page. I am a Google Summer of Code mentor and would be willing to sponsor such a project, assuming 1) it has a solid proposal and 2) someone in the F-Spot community indicates that they would be interested in a well-written DPAP patch. I don't have any experience with C#, but am the primary maintainer of libdmapsharing. > 2) There's a DPAP library in Perl written by Leon Brocard ( > http://search.cpan.org/~lbrocard/Net-DPAP-Client/lib/Net/DPAP/Client.pm). Is > it a good way to derive from it? (Of course the DPAP API in mono should be > designed similar in usage to the DAAP used for banshee.) However it does not > support password-protected shares. Is it because that encrypted data is hard > to analyze? Is encryption included in the plan of this Mono library? Libdmapsharing is written in C using GObject. I think it would make a good starting point for your project. > 3) I found this in an Apple's mailing list: > http://lists.apple.com/archives/bonjour-dev/2008/Jan/msg00022.html It seems > that it is not allowed to implement DPAP independently from Apple, at least > not allowed for commercial use. However, according to Mono GSoC rule, all of > the code submitted must be contributed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 > License, and Apache 2.0 allows commercial use. Is this a conflict? Libdmapsharing, dmapd, mt-daapd, the Perl code, etc. all implement DMAP. Roku, who is the only vendor to actually license Apple's DAAP, recommends using mt-daapd with their products (and Apple must be aware of this). Libdmapsharing is licensed under the LGPL. -- Mike :wq _______________________________________________ f-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
