On 10/29/2012 09:52 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> 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 > This makes me think that it covers the client as well. They did say that if we tried to keep this up to date that would be good enough.
Third party software libraries included in the Spotify Service are licensed to you either under these Terms, or under the relevant third party software library’s licence terms as published in the help or settings section of our desktop and mobile client and on our website. -- -- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)
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