On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Adam Davison <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ben, > >> This sort of thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth but I can't really >> explain why. > > Perhaps I can reexpress why we think this is a good idea. New Mixxx > users often either don't have their library set up correctly, need to > wait a long time to scan it, or don't have music that's terribly dj > friendly, perhaps a lot of their music is still on cds and they need > to rip it before they can play it in Mixxx. Providing a few tracks > with Mixxx allows them to get started straight away. It's also free > good music from artists you may not have heard of. Overall I think > this is a nice addition for users. > > Artists, especially less established ones, have trouble getting people > to listen to their music, even if it's good. So by putting their music > in Mixxx you're helping to promote new artists who are making music > that djs are interested in. > > Also many of the artists have record labels who are willing to pay for > the service, which then supports Mixxx development, so it's good for > Mixxx in a more direct sense too.
I find Traktor's beatport integration obnoxious. Is that just me? This just makes the richer artists better able to promote themselves and leaves the independents out in the cold. Instead, why not write a Jamendo plugin? Totem has one. That would be a great way for new users to get music to play with quickly and to help get exposure for unknown artists. >> However on a purely practical level, won't it mean you are including >> something with mixxx which users do NOT have the right to distribute >> under the GPL? > > The promo tracks feature doesn't change this. > In fact it's perfectly fine for a user to rebrand Mixxx as "My DJ > App", load it with your own promo tracks and ship it to users for your > own promotional purposes. GPLv3 (whether or not its actually better) is the result of GPLv2 getting burned by exactly that sort of rebranding, though. It may be technically allowed by the legalease of v2 but it's certainly against the spirit of it, which is viral community openness. The LGPL or BSD is appropriate for what you want. -Nick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
