Hi, > 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.
You have sort of expressed the answer to the question here. If you integrate an exernal store, you have no control over who you are promoting. If we do it ourselves, it can be more targeted in terms of selecting music that djs want to be exposed to which makes it more useful for the users and the artists. Removing the 3rd party from the chain also makes it potentially more financially rewarding for the mixxx project. > 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. I disagree with this. The GPLv3 is supposed to prevent someone using Mixxx in a device where the user is legally able but technically prevented from modifying the source. The proper defences against rebranding under the GPL are as madjester says, the requirement to share their own code and trademark. But anyway the premise of adding promo tracks is not to affect rebranding rights, as far as I can see it makes no difference to that. Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
