>>>>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Matthew Thode wrote:

> It's looking hard to be able to add the spotify ebuild to tree because
> of licensing concerns.

> http://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/

This concerns not so much the client software, but their "service" and
the contents provided through it.

> 10:02 <  prometheanfire > do you have a plaintext version? I can copy
> the text, but just thought I'd ask :D
> 10:02 <     dan^spotify > No, and copy+pasting it into a text file isn't
> something we really want you to to do, since it changes from time-to-time
> 10:04 <  prometheanfire > ok, I'll see what the proper course of action
> is, I think you have us accept the license on first start right?
> 10:04 <     dan^spotify > Correct
> 10:04 <     dan^spotify > Well, first login
> 10:05 <  prometheanfire > just as good probably
> 10:05 <     dan^spotify > If you've already accepted the most up-to-date
> license on another machine, you won't be prompted again

> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373093

> They want it to be accepted through the app.  Is there a way this is
> compatible with Gentoo?

We need a plaintext license file for the client that we put in
${PORTDIR}licenses/, so users can look at it before they install the
package.

> Any advice would be appreciated.

Maybe it would make more sense to add one of the free alternatives?

   http://despotify.se/
   https://gitorious.org/libopenspotify

media-sound/despotify is already in Sunrise, bug 307795.

Ulrich

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