Hi guys,
To continue the App Store story - Behind the scenes, a lot of people helped
make it happen. It was necessary to relicense Mixxx with a GPL v2 exception
in order to accommodate the Mac App Store. This required the willingness and
cooperation of past Mixxx contributors, and I owe a great deal of thanks to
many people for that. Seeing the enthusiasm that many former developers
(including the project's founders) still share for Mixxx brought a smile to
my face.
If you believe you own the copyright to code in Mixxx that you have licensed
to us under the GPL, and I have not contacted you for permission to
relicense, please email me as soon as possible. I made an attempt to contact
every past Mixxx contributer, but I apologize if I've missed anyone.
Due to the relicensing, I had to remove some third-party GPL licensed code
from Mixxx, but the vast majority of it was unused. Unfortunately, one
valuable casualty of that the vinyl control code. Versions of Mixxx
distributed through the Mac App Store will not have vinyl control, but pure
GPL v2 versions distributed from our website will continue to have it. (We
currently have no plans to make the Mac App Store the only way to get
Mixxx.)
In order to meet a few of Apple's guidelines and clean up some licensing
stuff, I have a mixxx-appstore branch that I will push to Launchpad sometime
in the next week. Once I tidy up a couple odds and ends, I think we'll be
able to merge it into the 1.9 branch.
Thanks,
Albert
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